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pray you at your repaire to Salleye, Hexam, Newminster,
Leonerdcoste, Sainet Agathe, and all suche
other places as have made any maner of resistance,
or in any wise conspired, or kept their houses with
any force, sithens th' appointment at Dancastre, you
shall, without pitie or circumstance, nowe that our
baner is displayed, cause all the monkes and chanons,
that be in any wise faultie, to be tyed uppe, without
further delaye or ceremony, to the terrible exemple of
others." ^ His directions were carried out. Trafford,
the Abbot of Sawley, was hanged at Lancaster on the
loth March, 1536-7. The Prior of Hexham suffered
likewise. Seventy-four individuals, clerical and lay,
suffered in Cumberland and Westmoreland. Hallam
and others were executed at Hull. Sir Francis Bigod
and Sir George Lumley, with others, were sent to be
tried in London.
It is needless to say that the Pilgrimage of Grace
was a movement the progress of which was watched
with intense anxiety at Rome. Its commencement
synchronised with Reginald Pole's appointment as
cardinal. He subsequently had a legate's commission
given him by the pope, and it was left to his own discretion
whether to go to England or to give such
counsel and help as he could to the insurgent leaders
from the safer position of a foreign shore.
Pole maintained correspondence with England.
Whether Aske and his fellow-leaders in the insurrection
were amongst those from whom he received
despatches appears uncertain, but we find that
suspicion, of one kind or another, so far rested upon
'
Lemon's " St.ite Papers," i. p. 537.