The Tyburn executions of northern Pilgrimage leaders in 1537 complemented the regional executions in the north. Lord Darcy, an elderly northern magnate who had reluctantly joined the Pilgrimage, was beheaded on Tower Hill. The London executions signalled that the Crown would pursue rebel leaders to the capital itself and deny them the dignity of local martyrdom. They stripped the great northern families of their leadership across a single terrible year.
Lord Darcy beheaded Tower Hill; Lord Hussey and others executed
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