Pilgrimage of Grace

In the autumn of 1536 Henry VIII faced a rebellion in the North of England which sought to remove his evil councillors and reverse the religious reforms which had been implemented. Henry ultimately tricked the rebels with offers of negotiation and pardon, but had the rebels given battle to the royal forces they would have had overwhelming numerical advantage.

So WI the Pilgrims listened to the advice of their more militarily inclined leaders (as opposed to the trusting Robert Aske)? Could they force the King to remove Cromwell and Cranmer? Would the rebels go further and remove Henry from his throne? If this happens who do the rebels crown? (Seward in his book The Last White Rose argues that Lord Darcy had long been a member of the White Rose/Aragonese faction which sought to marry a Yorkist heir to the Lady Mary Tudor)

I am wondering as a large portion of England, and the elite remained Catholic at this point, and it would be interesting to speculate whether a victory in the field would cause a flock of defections from Henry, or even just Cromwell's side.
 
See my post at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/czBJt4iBVrw/Ze7o96ve_GMJ I am inclined to agree with Pete Barrett's reply at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/czBJt4iBVrw/vY3xboJ5lR8J which was that even if they scored victories in the North, the Pilgrims are unlikely to win:

"The rebels march south and threaten London. Henry won't back down, nor
will there be a coup (who would dare?). The further south they go, the
less support they'll find (it's what? 50 years? since Richard III
found that having a power base in the north was no help in
consolidating his grip on the south of England, and I don't suppose
things had changed that much). So there's a northern army camped
outside London, faced with a monarch who won't do more than give minor
concessions.

"Could they storm London? Even if they do, Henry just withdraws to
Windsor or Langley. Possession of London was important only if the
rebels had an alternative king they wanted crowned, but they haven't -
they'd probably like to depose Henry in favour of his daughter Mary,
but she'd be far too dutiful to go along with that, whatever her
private opinion of her father's religious policies.

"Whichever way I turn, as far as I can see, unless Henry takes the
field himself and is killed (in which case they *can* proclaim their
loyalty to Mary), they can't win. Henry can simply keep gathering
southern armies against the 'barbaric northerners', and eventually,
most of the Pilgrims will have to go home. He doesn't even have to
fight them."
 
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