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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's October 7, 1536, in Lincoln, 150 miles north of London, England.

The young boy laughs as he plays tag with his sister in the narrow streets.

It's market day, and the city is crowded with traders and customers haggling over prices.

The boy swerves to avoid a group of pigs being driven noisily along the street by a farmer.

The man scowls as the boy leaps over the animals and dashes on after his sister.

But the girl is faster than him, and the boy has little chance of

catching her until she stops abruptly. The boy roughly tags her on the shoulder and yells in

triumph, but the expression on his sister's face tells him something's wrong. He follows her gaze

along the street. Ahead, a large group of armed men are marching through the gates of the city.

But they're not soldiers.

Many of them carry simple clubs or pitchforks.

These are ordinary people, farmers, tradesmen, and peasants.

The boy grabs his sister's arm and pulls her to the side of the road as the group passes.

There are hundreds of them, maybe even

thousands. But rather than causing fear and panic, their arrival is cheered by the people of Lincoln.

The boy looks around in confusion, but a bystander gives him a reassuring smile and tells him not

to worry, the men aren't here to fight. they're here to protest. The only people who need to

fear this rag-tag army are the wicked advisors who persuaded the king to break with the Catholic

Church.

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