The rebel muster at Clifford Moor was the high-water mark of the Northern Rising's southern advance. With perhaps 5,000 men assembled, the earls heard that the Earl of Sussex was marching north with a substantial royal force. Rather than give battle, the rebellion began to fall apart — retainers drifted home, the earls quarrelled, and within days what had seemed a serious military threat dissolved. The collapse without a major battle was characteristic of Tudor rebellions against a determined monarch.
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