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Lindsey Graham (0:00)
There are more ways than ever to listen to History Daily ad free. Listen with Wondry plus in the Wondery app as a member of Noiser plus at noiser.com or in Apple Podcasts. Or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts@intohristory.com It's October 7, 1536, in Lincoln, 150 miles north of London, England. The young boy laughs as he plays tag with his sister in the narrow streets. It's market day and the city is crowded with traders and customers haggling over prices. The boy swerves to avoid a group of pigs being driven noisily along the street by a farmer. The man scowls as the boy leaps over the animals and dashes on after his sister, but the girl is faster than him and the boy has little chance of catching her until she stops abruptly. The boy roughly tags her on the shoulder and yells in triumph, but the expression on his sister's face tells him something's wrong. He follows her gaze along the street ahead. A large group of armed men are marching through the gates of the city. But they're not soldiers. Many of them carry simple clubs or pitchforks. These are ordinary people, farmers, tradesmen and peasants. The boy grabs his sister's arm and pulls her to the side of the road as the group passes. There are hundreds of them, maybe even thousands. But rather than causing fear and panic, their arrival is cheered by the people of Lincoln. The boy looks around in confusion, but a bystander gives him a reassuring smile and tells him not to worry. The men aren't here to fight, they're here to protest. The only people who need to fear this ragtag army are the wicked advisors who persuaded the King to break with the Catholic Church. Twenty years earlier, the English King Henry VIII quarreled with the Pope. The fallout led Henry to break with centuries of tradition. He rejected the authority of the Catholic Church and created a new Church of England in its place. This radical religious reformation left the people of England facing a whether to embrace the new Church as their king commands, or stick with the old ways. The people of Lincoln pick a side and the pro Catholic uprising there will begin a rebellion across the north of England that would become known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. It will be ruthlessly suppressed by King Henry and the rebellion's leader will eventually be executed. But they will not be the only casualties of the religious divisions in Tudor England. Even royalty will fall victim to this turmoil and a 17 year old queen will lose her life when she is beheaded on 2-12-1554.
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