Hexham Priory provided the most dramatic armed resistance to dissolution. When royal visitors arrived to suppress the priory in 1536 the canons met them in armour with weapons drawn and drove them off. The incident shocked Cromwell and the Privy Council. Hexham held out through the Pilgrimage of Grace but was forcibly suppressed in 1537 and the leaders punished.
Augustinian canons armed; royal visitors with small escort
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