Organisation to mark 500 years since uprising against Cardinal Wolsey’s closure of Bayham Abbey
They included a brewer, a tailor and a shoemaker – a hardy bunch of craftspeople prepared to stand up to the might of the Tudor regime to try to save their local monastery.
Exactly five centuries on, English Heritage is appealing for people who think they may be descendants of those who took part in the uprising against Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s closure of Bayham Abbey to come forward.
