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DISPERSION OF THE INSURGENTS, 345
but by their irresolution they threw away their only
chance of success, and all the subsequent history
of the campaign is a record of disastrous failure.
After retiring from Wetherby they laid siege to
Barnard Castle, which was held by Sir George Bowes.
Want of provisions obliged him to surrender, but the
rebels profited little by this apparent advantage.
Sussex was advancing in their rear, and on hearing
that his forces had reached Northallerton the insurgents
lost heart and dispersed in all directions.
The earls fled into Scotland. Lord Westmoreland
found an asylum with Ker of Farnihurst, and afterwards
took refuge in Flanders and entered the service
of the King of Spain. He died in extreme
old age in 1600, having become indebted for the
very means of subsistence to the ])recarious bounty
of a foreign court. The miserable failure of his
attempt to overthrow his sovereign's power resulted
in the utter ruin of the great house of Neville. The
Earl of Northumberland was betrayed and sold to
the Regent Murray. He was eventually taken to
York, where, without any form of trial, the attainder
being regarded as sufficient, he was beheaded in an
open space called the Pavement in that city on the
22nd August, 1572. His head was set on Micklegate
Bar, and his body buried in St. Crux Church,
which adjoins the place of his execution.'
Richard Norton, the patriarchal standard-bearer of
-the rebel host, escaped to Flanders with two of his
' The Earl was succeeded in his honours by his brother, Sir
Henry Percy, who, during tlie reljellion, was active on the
queen's side.