Bigod's revolt of January 1537 proved fatal to the Pilgrimage. Unlike the mass rising of autumn 1536, it was a smaller desperate action by a Protestant gentry reformer who paradoxically helped the conservative Pilgrimage. Bigod believed the king would never honour the pardon. His revolt gave Henry VIII the pretext to void the December pardon and execute the rebel leaders.
Bigod with c.200-300 armed followers
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