The Lincolnshire Rising began at Louth on 1-2 October 1536 when locals seized the church plate fearing commissioners would confiscate it, and the vicar of Louth rang the church bells to muster the parish. The royal commissioner Thomas Moigne was seized. Within days the rising had spread across Lincolnshire. The speed of the rebellion — thousands mobilised within a week — reflects the depth of popular anxiety about the Dissolution. It was the first mass popular rebellion of the Tudor period.
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