Westmorland saw spontaneous rising among tenant farmers and small gentry with grievances over dissolution and enclosure. The county mustered in the area of Shap and Appleby. The participation of Westmorland completed the encirclement of the north and put pressure on royal garrison at Carlisle.
Westmorland commons and minor gentry
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