AD 1528 , 25 May . After a series of retaliation and revenge forays perpetrated by Armstrong cohorts , deputy Warden Christopher Dacre led a failed attempt at destroying Scottish Routledges , called " Qwyskes . " As described by Elizabeth Dacre in a letter to her husband , Lord Dacre , by the time the English officers arrived , the Routleges had already departed to the wilds of Terras " in the uttermost part of the Debateable Ground . " They could not be overtaken " by reason of the great strength of the woods and mosses . " Nevertheless , Dacre took away " four-score head of nolt , five-score sheep and forty gate goats , and returning burnt the houses of Black Joke 's sons upon the Mere burn adjoining the side of Lidisdale . " AD 1530s . England 's King Henry VIII , having found himself without a male heir to the throne after 23 years married to Katherine of Aragon , determined to divorce her and marry the ill-fated Anne Boleyn — the second of Henry 's six wives . To gain this end , he defied the Church of Rome , declared himself head of a reformed Church of England and set about the dissolution of Catholic monasteries , thus inspiring much alarm among his predominantly Catholic northern counties . From Yorkshire to Cumberland , thousands of rebellious noblemen and commoners joined in a popular uprising called Pilgrimage of Grace in October 1536 . Loyalist and rebel clashes ensued across the land , adding to tensions exacerbated by successive bad harvests , rising grain prices , complaints between landlords and tenants , and an assortment of nasty family feuds . With the quelling of the uprising , many rebels faced execution
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
History of Routledge surname 15th to 18th centuries