Louth Park Abbey [SEP] religious order
Louth Park Abbey
Louth Park Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Lincolnshire, England. It was founded in 1139 by the Bishop Alexander of Lincoln as a daughter-house of Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire.
Founding.
The founder originally offered the monks a site on the Isle of Haverholme, but they were unhappy with the agricultural potential, and it was given to the order of Gilbert of Sempringham, who settled there in 1139. Alexander of Lincoln then gave the Cistercians a site within his own park at Louth instead.
Statute of Uses, which sought to recover royal fees based on land tenure. 
The rising began on 1 October 1536 at St James' Church, Louth, after evensong, shortly after the closure of Louth Park Abbey. The stated aim of the uprising was to protest against the suppression of Catholic religious houses, not the rule of Henry VIII himself. The commissioners' registers were seized and burned. It quickly gained support in Horncastle, Market Rasen, Caistor and other nearby towns. John Raynes, the chancellor of the