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MOORHOUSE**, GEOFFREY: : THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE: THE REBELLION THAT SHOOK HENRY VIII'S THRONE

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2002.

ISBN 0297643932.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. Previous owner's neat,blue ink inscrptn+ date,partially hidden by front inner flap of dw/dj,and no price-clip (originally published at £25.00) to same.Bright,clean, colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and slight sunning/fading to length of same and also slightly affecting the front,upper wrap,due in part,to proximity of smaller 12mo book.Top edge slightly aged,fore-edge brighter; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean,cream endpapers. Front,bottom corner bumped and a small indent towards centre of upper board.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xxpp+1-361pp [paginated] includes illustrations+maps lists/tables,a foreword,alphabetical list of principal characters,18 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w illus,and b/w modern landscape photographs between pp172/3,a bibliography,source notes and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication,a contents list/table and 2pp blanks to rear. The rebellion against the Crown across the north of England in 1536-7 rates but a few lines in most biographies of Henry VIII. Yet the Pilgrimage of Grace,as the rebellion is known,almost toppled the King. Geoffrey Moorhouse - who lives in North Yorkshire not far from where some of the rebels were eventually executed - has written a dramatic new account that emphasises just how close Henry and his chief henchman,the Lord Privy Seal Thomas Cromwell,came to losing control of the north of England. The rebellion,which began in Lincolnshire and swiftly spread north across the Humber into Yorkshire and west into Lancashire and Cumbria,protested against the King's betrayal of the 'old' religion following his divorce from Catherine of Aragon and his split with Rome.As Cromwell's commissioners toured the nation,dissolving monastries and seizing their treasures in the name of the Crown,so the Pilgrims mustered their forces and prepared to do battle. If the rebellion had succeeded,the name of the lawyer Robert Aske would now be celebrated in every history book.But Aske, like the other rebel leaders,was betrayed by the King and his military leader,the Duke of Norfolk,a veteran of the Battle of Flodden more than twenty years before. 'The Pilgrimage of Grace' is a sensational and tragic story set against the backdrop of religious schism and machiavellian Tudor politics,of which Henry VIII was a master. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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