Sawley Abbey in the Ribble Valley had been dissolved in May 1536, one of the smaller monasteries suppressed in the first wave. When the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in October 1536, the expelled monks returned to Sawley and the local commons reinstated the community. The reoccupied abbey served as a focus of rebel sentiment in the Ribblesdale area. After the rising failed, the monks were ejected again and several executed.
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