Gracedieu Priory in Charnwood Forest was a small Cistercian nunnery that resisted dissolution. The forcible eviction of the nuns required an armed commission. The episode illustrates the range of dissolution resistances that went beyond the dramatic confrontations of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Several midland monasteries required force or threats of force during the dissolution years.
Royal dissolution commission with armed escort
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