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Letter from Lord Darcy to Robert Aske. Thomas Darcy, Baron Darcy and Robert Aske were two of the perpetrators of the 'Pilgrimage of Grace', a popular rising in Yorkshire in 1536, in protest against Henry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic Church, the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the policies of the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, as well as other specific political, social and economic grievances. . Letter from Lord Darcy to Robert Aske. 16th century. Letter from Lord Darcy to Robert Aske. . Source: Cotton Vespasian F. III, f.233.