Shortly after this episode , local resistance to the reforms emerged in England . The Dissolution of the Monasteries , which began in 1536 , provoked a violent northern Catholic rebellion in the Pilgrimage of Grace , which was eventually put down with much bloodshed . The reformation continued to be imposed on an often unwilling population with the aid of stern laws that made it treason , punishable by death , to oppose the King 's actions with respect to religion . The next major armed resistance took place in the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549 , which was an unsuccessful rising in western England against the enforced substitution of Cranmer 's English language service for the Latin Catholic Mass
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
European wars of religion