Henry VIII described the county of Lincolnshire as "one of the most brutal and beestlie of the whole realm", his contempt based on the events of 1536, when thousands of northern peasants rebelled against his religious reforms. In Lincolnshire, this insurrection, the Pilgrimage of Grace , began in the northeast of the county at LOUTH , twenty-three miles from Lincoln, under the leadership of the local vicar, who was subsequently hung, drawn and quarte... [More]