The execution of Lincolnshire rebel leaders at Louth completed the suppression of the county that had started the Pilgrimage of Grace. Henry VIII insisted on exemplary punishment in the very places where the rising had begun. Several clergy involved in inciting the rising were hanged in chains at Louth marketplace. The executions were designed to warn future generations against religious resistance.
Several rebel leaders including priests executed
Royal commission; armed escort
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