Sawley Abbey was an abbey of Cistercian monks in the village of Sawley , Lancashire , in England ( and historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire ) . Created as a daughter-house of Newminster Abbey , it existed from 1149 until its dissolution in 1536 , during the reign of King Henry VIII . A monk here , William de Remmyngton went on to become Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1372-3 . The last two abbots of Sawley were both put to death . Thomas Bolton was executed as a consequence of his resistance to the dissolution and William Trafford , the last Abbot , was executed in Lancaster on 10 March 1537 alongside John Paslew , the last Abbot of Whalley Abbey , for alleged involvement in the Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Sawley Abbey