The Participants of the Pilgrimage of Grace were those who felt that the new laws, taxes, and dissolution of monasteries were wrong. They were Catholics that decided to stage protests and armed demonstrations to show how displeased they were with the new changes. The people who apposed the movement felt that these new changes were good, and that what the King was doing was a good thing. During this time, there was great controversy between the two groups, and the participants of the pilgrimage suffered for what they had done. The people of the Pilgrimage of Grace had a right to feel displeased with the problem, but the consequences of their actions was also right considering the time period this happened, because of the way they acted out against the King.
In the first document, the participants of the pilgrimage stated that the march was for their love of God and the ousting of those who do evil against He and His church. They were doing the march to prove their undying loyalty to God. Document four is a poem about how they had been doing this for their faith, and now they were left homeless without anything to own. The monks were stating that they had been removed of all of their lands, animals, and crops, and that their faith was now placed in shackles. The marcher's proclamation in document two talks about how their own country did not defend them from the misdeeds done by the Scots and the thieves stealing what they still owned, even though they felt that what they were doing was right. This seems like a good thing, defending their beliefs, until they started with the protests and armed demonstrations.
In document five, the King's Council receives a letter asking for things to go back to the way they were. They Catholics wanted the Pope back as the supreme head of the church in Rome, for heresies against their leaders to be annulled and destroyed, as well as having the households and objects that were previously owned by the Catholics to be given back to them. They wanted things to be Catholic for them again, instead of them being treated like rebels and outcasts. Document eight is written by a Catholic parish priest, while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. He talks about how the rebellious acts demonstrated by the Pilgrimage of Grace participants could have been stopped if someone had told them it was considered treason. He also says that the demonstrations were that against the Privy Council for the King, not against him. The rebellious demonstrations were beginning to become a problem.
The armed demonstrations and staged protests had become all too big of a problem. The people against the pilgrimage started to complain too. In the ninth document, King Henry says that the rebellions that occurred could have ruined the country. He also states that even though this was a great act of treason, he would pardon them as long as they repented and made humble submissions to he, King Henry VIII. The tenth document is the statistics for the First Treason Trial of the Participants of the Pilgrimage of Grace. In total, 223 people were tried for treason, 177 were commoners. Over half of them, 144, were convicted. In percentage, 65% of the people tried were convicted of treason.
The participants definitely paid the price for their actions. They were convicted of treason, which could have been stopped if they had known what they were doing was considered treason. The people against the pilgrimage got what they wanted, which was for the participants to stop and pay for what they did. The participants obviously had the right to feel displeased. However, they did not have the right to create rebellions and problems, which in the end, caused them to pay dearly.
Outline
Thesis- The people of the Pilgrimage of Grace had a right to feel displeased with the problem, but the consequences of their actions was also right considering the time period this happened, because of the way they acted out against the King.
1st paragraph:
1st document
Explain what they mean
4th document
Explain what they mean
2nd document
Outbursts had taken it too far
2nd Paragraph
Document 5
Explain more
Document 8
Describe it
3rd Paragraph
Rebellious acts were a problem
Document 9
Document 10
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