Pilgrimage of Grace causes

Rebels wanted Princess Mary legitimised and restored to the line of succession because Henry had divorced Catherine of Aragon
* The marriage had been annulment - which states that the marriage had never existed in the first place
* Mary had been baptised (illegitimised) and could no longer be part of the line of succession due to this marriage
Inspired by disaffected pro-Araganese supporters
  * Pro-Araganese wanted wanted to regain lost status in the cause
  * The main two Aragansese nobles are Darcy and Hussey
  * Araganese factions one is known as the conservative faction - stood for traditional role of monarchy and church and disliked the sense of any change
Wanted to a parliament to be held at York or Nottingham - North of the Trent
* This is because the North didn’t feel they had a strong political voice
Evil Councillors
  * Rebels identifying crown servants and criticising advice they are giving to the monarch
  * Rebels attack and challenge the advisors but loyal to the monarch - it is a loyal rebellion
  * Crown servants were not from traditional wealthy families and the older nobles’ power was transferred to ‘men of low birth’

10 of the 24 demands were religious
Closure of the monasteries in the North of England
  * Dissolution in the Northern England (mainly in Lincolnshire) - the people in the North felt singled out - they were annoyed
  * Dr Ligh was sent up to Lincolnshire was sent to dissolve the smaller monasteries
  * People were worried in the dissolution of the monasteries meant they would lose the local members of the clergy meaning they will lose their instruction on the path to heaven
They wanted the pope to be restores as the head of the Church of England instead of the monarchy
  * In the North they had very strong traditional catholic views and listen to the pope and not the monarch - defending papal authority
  * papal authority is where the pope has more power of the church rather than the monarchy
  * Henry had more control of the church and the rebels wanted to reverse that power back to the pope
There was resentment of tithes and the poor quality of many priests - in Cumberland and the region to the West of Pennies
Reinstate smaller religious houses

Nobility kept increasing rent which made it unpayable
  * The tenants that were unable to pay were evicted
  * Nobility were raising rent above the entry fine (Rat Renting) then subletting it (renting it again) in order to make more profit
  * This increased the rent for mainly peasants - making their lives more difficult
Dissolution in the North
  * The poor depended on them for help, they were hospitals for the poor and they provided food and shelter
  * Most people lost their basic education, meaning they were losing their path to heaven as they would need to be able to read the bible
  * Most monasteries spent 5% of their income on providing help for the poor, and this was a huge amount, and the dissolution of monasteries hugely affected the poor
Rioting over illegal enclosures (mountains, forests, and parks)
* Nobles were building fences around land to stop the commons from using it
* Grievances about enclosures happened in two places - one in Giggleswick (Yorkshire) and Kendal (Lancashire)

Rebels did not want to have to pay taxes
Government taxation
* Subsidy taxes on sheep
Inflation was hitting the North
  * Particularly in the cost of land to rent
  * 2 in 4 harvests failed so there was an inflation in food
  * The inflation results in considerable hardship for the poor and for those dependent on charitable giving as little as 3% of monastic wealth went towards the poor
Tenths and Fifteenths were being difficult to pay