<Tr> <Th> No. of participants </Th> <Td> 40,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Defender </Th> <Td> Thomas Cromwell, Vicegerent in Spirituals to Henry VIII Henry VIII of England </Td> </Tr> <P> The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular rising in Yorkshire in October 1536 against Henry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic Church, the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the policies of the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, as well as other specific political, social and economic grievances . It was "the most serious of all Tudor rebellions". </P> <P> Although sometimes used to refer to other risings in northern England at the time, including the Lincolnshire Rising 12 days before the Pilgrimage of Grace, the term technically refers only to the uprising in Yorkshire . The traditional historical view portrays it as "a spontaneous mass protest of the conservative elements in the North of England angry with the religious upheavals instigated by King Henry VIII". Historians have noted that there were contributing economic issues . </P>

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