The significance of the articles, however, is not so much their Lutheran provenance, as in their promulgation {302} by the crown.

It was the last step in the enslavement of religion.

"This king," as Luther remarked, "wants to be God.

He founds articles of faith, which even the pope never did." [Sidenote: The Pilgrimage of Grace] It only remained to see what the people would say to the new order.
Within a few months after the dissolution of the Reformation Parliament and the publication of the Ten Articles, the people in the north spread upon the page of history an extremely emphatic protest.

For this is really what the Pilgrimage of Grace was--not a rebellion against king, property, or any established institution, but a great demonstration against the policy for which Cromwell became the scapegoat.