The merger of the Lincolnshire Rising with the Yorkshire Pilgrimage of Grace created the largest rebel force in Tudor history. With an estimated 40,000 men assembled, the Pilgrimage briefly seemed capable of reversing Henry VIII's Reformation. The sheer scale of the movement — spanning from Cumberland to Lincolnshire — demonstrated how deeply the dissolution of the monasteries and religious reform had disturbed northern English society.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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