The Lincolnshire Uprising 1536
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- The Lincolnshire Rising October 1536
- Caused by the rapid and radical changes that were being imposed by Henry VIII and Cromwell
- The presence of government commissioners in the region who were overseeing the dissolution of the monastries
- The visitations of the clergy
- On 9th October, Dr Raynes, the chancellor of the Bishop of Lincoln was killed by rebels
- Started in Louth
- 10,000 men joined rebellion and wrote a petition
- Duke of Suffolk persuaded rebels to go home on 11th October
- Nicholas Melton, a shoe cobbler led the rising
- Caused by the rapid and radical changes that were being imposed by Henry VIII and Cromwell
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