There are but few probably of the members of this Society so slightly versed in the history of their country as not to recollect the great Lincolnshire rebellion in 1536, when a body of men, amounting, according to historians, to 20,000 men, headed by Dr. Makerel, the Abbot of Barlings, under the assumed name of Captain Cobler, had the hardihood to assemble and remonstrate to Henry the Eighth, against the suppression of the religious houses, the exaction of subsidies, the grant of first-fruits, and other arbitrary proceedings of the King, his Council, and Parliament. The first cause of this serious disturbance is alleged to have been the publication of a book, entitled “Articles devised by the King's highness,” &c. in which only three sacraments were allowed; and the dissatisfaction given to the clergy by this step, was not long after augmented by the injunctions issued by Cromwell, in Sept. 1536, that the Pater-noster, Ave, Creed, and Commandments, should be read in English, which, as Holinshed writes, “bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people, which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine.” The issue of this affair is well known:—the reply or Henry to the rebels, in which they are called in no courtly terms, “the rude commons of one shire, and that one of the moste brute and beastly of the whole realme;” and their final submission to the Duke of Suffolk.