Original sentence: Following the uprising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, the English court began to link loyality to the pope with treason against the crown.For this reason he banned pilgrimages, saints' days and the display of relics.Late in 1538, as part of a process collectively known as the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the king's soldiers sacked the priory at Walsingham and also destroyed the shrine, burning everything that could not be taken and resold.The fear of another rebellion was strongly felt by Henry VIII.This fear caused him to target as "superstitious" any religious practice likely to bring together significant numbers of English citizens whose loyality remained with the pope
Edited sentence: Eleven men were executed as a result.However, two lay choristers organised 'the most serious plot hatched anywhere south of the Trent', according to Geoffrey Elton intended to resist what they feared, rightly as it turned out, would happen to their foundation.On the pretext of discovering any irregularities in the their life, Thomas Cromwell organised a series of visitations, the results of which led to the suppression of smaller foundations, which did not include Walsingham.The suppression of Walsingham priory came late in 1538, unders the supervision of Sir Roger Townshend, a local landowner.The suppression of the monasteries was part of the Reformation project