now it will be apparent that the Lincolnshire Rising and Pilgrimage of Grace were aimed at Cromwell and his associates more precisely and carefully than has generally been appreciated. The unpardonables were (as the Sawley Abbey ballad written for the Pilgrims ran) ‘Crim, Cram and Rich / With three Ls and their like’, the ‘three Ls’ or hells probably being Lee, Leighton and Hugh Latimer, or maybe just the whole clan of Lees, Bishop and
