The rebel earls occupied Durham Cathedral and celebrated the Catholic Mass — the most dramatic religious gesture of the rising. English Bibles and Protestant communion tables were destroyed. The act galvanised Protestant England against them. Though the earls withdrew without fighting, the Yorkshire gentry were implicated and those who had joined the host were systematically identified and punished after the rebellion's collapse.
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