oses.

After long repining at the contribution, they refused payment:
ecclesiastical and civil censures were issued against them, their goods
were distrained, and their persons thrown into jail: till, as their ill
humor daily increased, they rose in arms; fell upon the officers of the
hospital, whom they put to the sword; and proceeded in a body, fifteen
thousand strong, to the gates of York. Lord Montague, who commanded
in those parts, opposed himself to their progress; and having been so
fortunate in a skirmish as to seize Robert Hulderne, their leader,
he ordered him immediately to be led to execution, according to the
practice of the times. The rebels, however, still continued in arms; and
being soon headed by men of greater distinction: Sir Henry Nevil, son of
Lord Latimer, and Sir John Coniers, they advanced southwards, and began
to appear formidable to government. Herbert, earl of Pembroke, who had
received that title on the forfeiture of Jasper Tudor, was ordered by
Edward to march against them at the head of a body of Welshmen; and he
was joined by five thousand archers, under the command of Stafford,
earl of Devonshire, who had succeeded in that title to the family of
Courtney, which had also been attainted. But a trivial difference about
quarters having begotten an animosity between these two noblemen, the
earl of Devonshire retired with his archers, and left Pembroke alone to
encounter the rebels. The two armies approached each other near Banbury;
and Pembroke, having prevailed in a skirmish, and having taken Sir John
Nevil prisoner, ordered him immediately to be put to death, without any
form of process. This execution enraged without terrifying the rebels:
they attacked the Welsh army, routed them, put them to the sword without
mercy; and having seized Pembroke, they took immediate revenge upon him
for the death of their leader. The king, imputing this misfortune to
the earl of Devonshire, who had deserted Pembroke, ordered him to be
executed in a like summary manner. But these speedy executions, or
rather open murders, did not stop there: the northern rebels, sending
a party to Grafton, seized the earl of Rivers and his son John; men
who had become obnoxious by their near relation to the king, and his
partiality towards them: and they were immediately executed by orders
from Sir John Coniers.[*]

* Fabian, fol. 217.

There is no part of English history since the conquest so obscure,
so uncertain,