THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE 1536–1537 AND THE EXETER CONSPIRACY 1538 IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, MANAGER =London=: FETTER LANE, E.C. =Edinburgh=: 100 PRINCES STREET [Illustration: Black-and-white woodcut colophon showing a heraldic shield divided into four quarters with rampant lions, separated by vertical panels of ermine spots; a small rectangular cartouche sits at the center.] =New York=: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS =Bombay, Calcutta and Madras=: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. =Toronto=: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD. =Tokyo=: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA _All rights reserved_ THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE 1536–1537 AND THE EXETER CONSPIRACY 1538 BY MADELEINE HOPE DODDS (Historical Tripos, Cambridge) AND RUTH DODDS VOLUME I Cambridge: at the University Press 1915 Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN NOTE The authors wish to express their most sincere gratitude to Miss Myra Curtis, Professor A. F. Pollard, Mr I. J. Bell of the British Museum, Mr H. R. Leighton, the Rev. J. Wilson, and Mr T. C. Hodgson for their kind and valuable help in the preparation of this book. The documents transcribed by the authors from the originals have been given in the original spelling; in those which have been taken from printed copies the spelling has been modernised. The spelling of proper names of persons and places is that used in the Index to the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. M. H. D. R. D. _July 1915._ CONTENTS