Pilgrims_Of_Grace

Pilgrims Of Grace Far From Plymouth The Pilgrimage of Grace was a rebellion against King Hennery VIII and his new Anglican Church. The people rebelled because they did not think the king made his religion for religious reasons, they wanted to keep their old Catholic ways, the poor liked their old economic situations, and they thought that religion would unite them with they enemies like the Scottish. The people did not want to change their old religion and they did not think the king was changing for religious reasons. They believed that the king wanted a divorce form his wife and wanted the land for himself. They also thought that this would unite them with Scotland because the king and his armies were not protecting England form them. The poor people wanted to keep the monasteries open because they got money form them. The rebels wanted to protest the king and did so by destroying his kingdom. The people believed the king wanted to rebel for many reasons. They believed that the king wanted the land of the monasteries for his own personal gain (1). They did not think the king wanted to reform for religious reasons. king, wanted, people, poor, believed, religion, god, monasteries, think, reasons, church, because, unite, scottish, religious, land, england, thought, should, rebellion, out, old, money, helped, form, defend, change, catholicism, word, ways, took, time, stay, scotland