Henry VIII ordered mass executions at Carlisle in 1537 to pacify the rebellious north. Some seventy-four rebels from Cumberland and Westmorland were hanged at Carlisle in a series of executions designed to terrorise the region into submission. The Carlisle hangings, combined with executions at York and Lancaster, represented the bloodiest royal reprisal of the Tudor period against popular uprising.
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