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The Age of the Reformation

CHAPTER I
679/1552

Their demands were the restoration of Catholicism, intervention in Scotland to put Mary back on her throne, and her recognition as heiress of England, and the expulsion of foreign refugees.

Had they been able to secure Mary's person or had the Scotch joined them, it is probable that they would have seceded from the south of England.
But the new Pilgrimage of Grace was destined to no more success than the old one.

Moray, Regent of Scotland, forcibly prevented assistance going to the {335} rebels from North Britain.

Elizabeth prepared an overwhelming army, but it was not needed.

The rebels, seeing the hopelessness of their cause, dispersed and were pursued by an exemplary punishment, no less than eight hundred being executed.


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