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Revolt in Yorkshire in October 1536 against Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church and in protest at other political, social and economic grievances, spread to other parts of the north including Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and north Lancashire - "the most serious of all Tudor period rebellions".

• 20 January 1536: Thomas Cromwell’s dissolvers of monasteries, Richard Layton and Thomas Legh, report allegations of whoring and theft by William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains
• 21 October 1536: Henry VIII’s herald encounters part of the Pilgrimage of Grace at Pontefract
• 25 October 1536: God stands between Henry VIII’s army at Doncaster and a superior force of Catholic rebels from the Pilgrimage of Grace, according to a Tudor chronicler

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