Robert Aske was lured to London under promise of pardon, arrested, tried for treason and returned to York to be hanged in chains from the walls of Clifford Tower in July 1537. His execution in the city that had been the symbolic heart of the pilgrimage was deliberately chosen by Henry VIII for maximum deterrent effect. Numerous other York-area rebels were also executed in the city that summer.
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