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2nd October 1536
A rising began in Lincolnshire that was the start of the most potentially damaging rebellion of King Henry VIII’s reign.

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12th July 1537
Robert Aske, lawyer and rebel was executed. He was hanged in chains outside Clifford’s Tower (the keep of York Castle) on a special scaffold erected for the occasion.

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15th May 1537
Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy, was tried for treason at Westminster after being implicated in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Found guilty, he was later beheaded on Tower Hill.

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22nd April 1542
Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland, died.

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7th April 1537
Robert Aske and Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy were sent to the Tower of London.

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