 Response to the reforms was mixed . The religious houses had been the only support of the impoverished , and the reforms alienated much of the population outside London , helping to provoke the great northern rising of 1536 – 1537 , known as the Pilgrimage of Grace . Elsewhere the changes were accepted and welcomed , and those who clung to Catholic rites kept quiet or moved in secrecy . They would re @-@ emerge in the reign of Henry 's daughter Mary ( 1553 – 1558 ) . 
