Kirkstead Abbey had been a refuge and muster point during the Lincolnshire rising. The Crown used the abbey's involvement as pretext to accelerate dissolution. Abbot Harrison was among the Lincolnshire rebel leaders executed in 1537. The suppression of Kirkstead exemplified the punitive dissolution of monasteries that had participated in resistance.
Royal dissolution commission backed by garrison
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