Archbishop Richard Scrope of York led an extraordinary rising against Henry IV in 1405, gathering a force of 8,000 at Shipton Moor north of York under a banner listing the people's grievances. The Earl of Westmorland (Ralph Neville) persuaded Scrope to dismiss his forces by offering to negotiate, then arrested him. Scrope's subsequent execution — as an archbishop without papal sanction — shocked contemporaries. His tomb in York Minster became a place of pilgrimage; Henry IV reportedly suffered a disfiguring illness (possibly leprosy) that many attributed to divine punishment for the execution.
Scrope executed; Mowbray executed; army dispersed without fighting
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