The Rising of the Northern Earls — Northumberland and Westmorland — advanced as far south as Wetherby before the approach of a large royal army under the Earl of Sussex caused them to withdraw. The rebels had hoped to rescue Mary Queen of Scots from Tutbury, but Mary was moved south before they could act. The rising ended without a pitched battle; the earls fled to Scotland and Elizabeth I executed 800 rebels in the reprisals that followed — the largest mass execution of the Tudor period.
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