Robert Aske, a York lawyer, crossed the Humber from Lincolnshire and immediately raised the East Riding. He organised the Yorkshire rising with remarkable efficiency, compelling local gentry to take oaths to the Five Wounds of Christ. Within days tens of thousands were under arms across Yorkshire. Aske's genius was to give the rising a religious character — the Pilgrimage of Grace — that distinguished it from mere sedition and mobilised the religious conservatism of northern England.
East Riding Pilgrim host: c.10,000 within days of Aske's arrival
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