After the early fourteenth century , it is often difficult to distinguish between Bowbearers and Master Foresters in the Bowland record : '' ' Bowbearers of Bowland ( 1150 – 1304 ) ' '' '' ' Master Foresters and Bowbearers of Bowland ( 1304 – 1650 ) ' '' '' ' Bowbearers of Bowland after 1660 ' '' Perhaps the most notorious Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland was Sir Nicholas Tempest , who was executed at Tyburn in 1537 . Tempest was one of the northern leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace , the Catholic uprising against Henry VIII and was linked to Sawley Abbey
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Bowbearer