The Lincolnshire rising begins on October 2,…
October 1536 CE
The Lincolnshire rising begins on October 2, 1536, at St James' Church, Louth, after evensong, shortly after the closure of Louth Park Abbey.
The stated aim of the uprising is to protest the suppression of Catholic religious houses, not the rule of Henry VIII himself.
It quickly gains support in Horncastle, Market Rasen, Caistor and other nearby towns.
Angered by the actions of commissioners, the protesters or rioters demand the end of the collection of a subsidy, the end of the Ten Articles, an end to the dissolution, an end to taxes in peacetime, a purge of heretics in government and the repeal of the Statute of Uses.
With support from local gentry, a force of demonstrators, estimated at up to forty thousand, marches on Lincoln, Lincolnshire, and, by October 14, occupiex Lincoln Cathedral.
They demand the freedom to continue worshipping as Catholics and protection for the treasures of Lincolnshire churches.
The protest is led by a monk and a shoemaker and involves twenty-two thousand people.
The moratorium effectively ends on 4 October 1536, when the King sends word for the occupiers to disperse or face the forces of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, which had already been mobilized.
By October 14, few remain in Lincoln.
Following the rising, the vicar of Louth and Captain Cobbler, two of the main leaders, are captured and hanged at Tyburn.
Most of the other local ringleaders are also executed during the next twelve days, including William Moreland, or Borrowby, one of the former Louth Park Abbey monks.
A lawyer from Willingham is hanged, drawn and quartered for his involvement.
The Lincolnshire Rising helps inspire the more widespread Pilgrimage of Grace.
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