How did ordinary people react to Henry VIII's changes in 1536?

1536 was an important year in the reign of Henry VIII. He went from being the handsome, popular, athletic young king of his earlier reign to a fat, paranoid tyrant who mercilessly destroyed anyone opposing his firm, unbending will. This was the year in which Henry sent his second wife, Anne Boleyn, to the block on a trumped-up charge of adultery. Anne was widely despised by the English people as a home-wrecking gold-digger, so it's fair to assume that her decapitation was a source of widespread joy and merriment throughout the land.
Other actions of the tyrant king were less popular, however. The Dissolution of the Monasteries generated fierce resistance from devotees of the old religion, especially in the North of England. The Monasteries weren't simply places of devotion and worship; they played a vital role in the provision of alms to the poor. They were a kind of welfare state in miniature, giving much-needed help to local people when times were bad.
But Henry saw the monasteries and their extensive land-holdings as a source of rich pickings. As he was now head of the Church of England, he felt entitled to seize these valuable lands for himself and sell them off to his supporters for vast sums of money. Most of Henry's subjects went along with the changes, albeit reluctantly. But in the North of England, a full-scale rebellion broke out, which came to be known as the Pilgrimage of Grace.
Upwards of 50,000 men participated in the uprising, vastly outnumbering Henry's forces. The king had no choice but to compromise, and offered the rebels a deal, which they gladly accepted. However, Henry had no intention of abiding by any agreement that would compromise his sovereignty as king. So he bided his time, and when the moment was right, crushed the rebels mercilessly, brutally executing the rebellion's ring-leaders and laying waste to entire villages as part of a campaign of bloody terror.