The execution of the 7th Earl of Northumberland in 1572 — sold back to England by the Scottish regent Morton for a large sum of money — was the final act of Elizabeth I's response to the Northern Rising. Percy was beheaded at York rather than London, deliberately emphasising crown control over the north. The Percy family, the greatest magnate dynasty of northern England for four centuries, was stripped of its earldom and never recovered its former power. Elizabeth had permanently broken the power of the old northern nobility.
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