Cumberland and Westmorland rose in a separate phase of the Pilgrimage of Grace in early 1537, independent of Bigod's East Riding revolt, driven by specific local grievances about tenant rights and monastic dissolution. The Cumberland rebels seized several local towers and briefly threatened Carlisle before Henry VIII's reprisal force under the Duke of Norfolk arrived to suppress the rising. The Cumberland rising was suppressed with considerable violence — several dozen rebels were hanged including some using their own doors and windows as gallows, in a deliberate act of local terror.
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