Leonard Dacre, who had initially posed as a loyalist during the Northern Rising, eventually revealed himself as a rebel when he attacked Lord Hunsdon's forces at the Gelt river. Hunsdon defeated him despite being outnumbered and wrote to Elizabeth I that it was 'the most terrible and brute action of my life.' Dacre fled to Scotland and died in exile. The defeat ended armed opposition to Elizabeth I in the north and led to stringent measures against the border clans who had supported the rebels.
c.300–400 Dacre men killed; remainder dispersed
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