The skirmish at Gelt Bridge was the final military act of the Northern Rising. After the earls had fled to Scotland, some of their followers made a last stand at the Gelt river crossing in Cumberland. The defeat extinguished the last embers of the rebellion. The Scots who had assisted the rebels were subsequently punished in a joint English-Scottish operation — James VI's regent, the Earl of Moray, cooperated with England in hunting down the remnants.
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