The priory was surrendered by its then community of ten canons at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 . An effect of the Pilgrimage of Grace was that the community was reinstated , one of perhaps 16 such cases . The prior , Richard Preston , had not thrown in his lot with resistance , but had fled to the Crown forces under Edward Stanley , 3rd Earl of Derby . He was to secure a parochial living to supplement his Crown pension . Others had a different fate . With the failure of the rising , as in other similar cases there came a brutal end for some , the subprior and several of the canons being hanged , along with ten villagers who had supported them
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Cartmel Priory