The Pilgrimage of Grace began not in Yorkshire but in Lincolnshire. The town of Louth rose first in October 1536 when its parishioners prevented royal commissioners from visiting the church. The rising spread rapidly through Lincolnshire, mobilising perhaps 20,000 men. The Lincolnshire rebels dispersed when threatened by royal forces — but their example had already ignited the much larger Yorkshire rising under Robert Aske. The Lincolnshire rising is thus the true starting point of the greatest Tudor rebellion.
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