The Pilgrimage of Grace: a study of the rebel armies of October 1536

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction: an historiographical observation the nature of revolt the Lincolnshire prelude. Part 2 The Stapulton host: the uprising about Beverley - revolt in the liberty, revolt in the lordship of Watton, revolt in holderness, the siege of Hull grievances and aims the organisation of revolt. Part 3 The Aske host: the uprising along the Ouse - the Lincolnshire connexion, the outbreak of revolt, the march on York, the yielding of Pontefract Castle complaints and remedies organisation. Part 4 The Bowes host: the Richmondshire uprising the raising of the Palatinate the march on Skipton Castle the march to Pontefract the grievances of the rebels procedures of revolt. Part 5 The Percy host: revolts about Malton grievances and aims organisation of revolt. Part 6 The Hamerton/tempest host: the hosts in Craven the revolt in Percy Fee - the restoration of Sawley Abbey, mobilising the host grievances a rising of the commons?. Part 7 The Atkinson host: mobilisation - in the lordship of Dent, in the barony of Kendal, in the hundred of Lonsdale causes of revolt the social structure of revolt. Part 8 The Pulleyn/Musgrave host: revolt in the barony of Westmorland - mobilisation, the connexion with Robert Aske, the Cumberland connexion grievances organisation. Part 9 The host of the four captains: captain poverty in Cumberland the Lanercost prelude forming the host the assault on Carlisle enlisting the orders - the clerics, the gentlemen the Cumberland/Dacre feud. Part 10 The convocation of the hosts: the Doncaster confrontation the truce the first five articles the December agreement. Part 11 Conclusion.