At Horncastle the Lincolnshire rising acquired its first blood. Dr Thomas Raynes, the bishop's chancellor, was beaten to death by the crowd. The Horncastle host under Edward Dymoke coalesced with other Lincolnshire bands and marched on Lincoln. The violence alarmed Henry VIII but also gave him legal justification for later executions.
Dr Raynes and a second commissioner killed
Horncastle commons, gentry-led, c.2,000
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