The Lincolnshire Rising of October 1536 was the first and in some ways most dramatic manifestation of popular anger at the Dissolution of the Monasteries and Henry VIII's religious changes. Beginning at Louth, it spread rapidly through Lincolnshire — Horncastle, Lincoln, and much of the county rose. The rebels marched in thousands with a clerical and gentry leadership. Henry VIII's furious response and the gathering of a royal army under the Duke of Suffolk caused the rising to collapse — but it immediately triggered the much larger Pilgrimage of Grace in Yorkshire and beyond.
Several leaders executed after the collapse; no major battle
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