As the Lincolnshire rising collapsed in mid-October 1536, many of the gentry leaders who had been coerced into heading the rebellion made formal recantation at Stamford before royal agents. This act of public submission spared most of their lives and demonstrated the fragility of gentry leadership in the revolt. The Stamford recantations allowed Henry VIII to distinguish between willing rebels and those compelled by the commons.
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