Pilgrimage of Grace

British  

noun

1. a rebellion in 1536 in N England against the Reformation and Henry VIII's government

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Example Sentences

In the course of his suppression of monasteries, the northern counties rose against his Vice-Regent, Thomas Cromwell, in the so-called "Pilgrimage of Grace."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the new Pilgrimage of Grace was destined to no more success than the old one.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Aske, Constable, and other leaders of the original Pilgrimage of Grace exerted themselves to stay this outbreak of their more violent followers; and between moderates and extremists the whole movement quickly collapsed.

From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)

So the Pilgrimage of Grace, threatening as it looked for a time, flickered out; and the yoke was riveted tighter than ever upon the neck of rural England.

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp

A rebellion in Lincolnshire and another in the north, the formidable Pilgrimage of Grace, followed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various