Rebel forces reoccupied Sawley Abbey in Lancashire after it had been dissolved and the monks expelled. Abbot Thomas Bolton was reinstated by the pilgrims; the reoccupation symbolised the wider demand for restoration of the monasteries and was a direct defiance of royal authority.
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