The circumstances of their trial and execution were recorded by the author of Wriothesley 's Chronicle : Also the 16 day of May 1537 there were arraigned at Westminster afore the King ’s Commissioners , the Lord Chancellor that day being the chief , these persons following : Sir Robert Constable , knight ; Sir Thomas Percy , knight , and brother to the Earl of Northumberland ; Sir John Bulmer , knight , and Ralph Bulmer , his son and heir ; Sir Francis Bigod , knight ; Margaret Cheney , after Lady Bulmer by untrue matrimony ; George Lumley , esquire ; Robert Aske , gentleman , that was captain in the insurrection of the Northern men ; and one Hamerton , esquire , all which persons were indicted of high treason against the King , and that day condemned by a jury of knights and esquires for the same , whereupon they had sentence to be drawn , hanged and quartered , but Ralph Bulmer , the son of John Bulmer , was reprieved and had no sentence . And on the 25 day of May , being the Friday in Whitsun week , Sir John Bulmer , Sir Stephen Hamerton , knights , were hanged and headed ; Nicholas Tempest , esquire ; Doctor Cockerell , priest ; Abbot quondam of Fountains ; and Doctor Pickering , friar , were drawn from the Tower of London to Tyburn , and there hanged , bowelled and quartered , and their heads set on London Bridge and divers gates in London . And the same day Margaret Cheney , ‘ other wife to Bulmer called ’ , was drawn after them from the Tower of London into Smithfield , and there burned according to her judgment , God pardon her soul , being the Friday in Whitsun week ; she was a very fair creature , and a beautiful .
insurrection of the Northern men
Pilgrimage of Grace
Bigod's rebellion