he king,
who was advancing with hasty marches to suppress the insurrection.[*]

* Walsing. p. 373. Otterborne, p 255.

The trial and punishment of an archbishop might have proved a
troublesome and dangerous undertaking, had Henry proceeded regularly,
and allowed time for an opposition to form itself against that unusual
measure: the celerity of the execution alone could here render it safe
and prudent. Finding that Sir William Gascoigne, the chief justice,
made some scruple of acting on this occasion, he appointed Sir William
Fulthorpe for judge; who, without any indictment, trial, or defence
pronounced sentence of death upon the prelate which was presently
executed. This was the first instance in England of a capital punishment
inflicted on a bishop; whence the clergy of that rank might learn that
their crimes, more than those of laies, were not to pass with impunity.
The earl of Nottingham was condemned and executed in the same summary
manner: but though many other persons of condition, such as Lord
Falconberg, Sir Ralph Hastings, Sir John Colville, were engaged in this
rebellion, no others seem to have fallen victims to Henry's severity.

The earl of Northumberland, on receiving this intelligence, fled
into Scotland, together with Lord Bardolf;[*] and the king, without
opposition, reduced all the castles and fortresses belonging to these
noblemen. He thence turned his arms against Glendour, over whom his son,
the prince of Wales, had attained some advantages; but that enemy, more
troublesome than dangerous, still found means of defending himself in
his fastnesses, and of eluding, though not resisting, all the force of
England.

{1407.} In a subsequent season, the earl of Northumberland and Lord
Bardolf, impatient of their exile, entered the north, in hopes of
raising the people to arms; but found the country in such a posture as
rendered all their attempts unsuccessful. Sir Thomas Rokesby, sheriff
of Yorkshire, levied some forces, attacked the invaders at Bramham, and
gained a victory, in which both Northumberland and Bardolf were slain.**
This prosperous event, joined to the death of Glendour, which happened
soon after, freed Henry from all his domestic enemies; and this prince,
who had mounted the throne by such unjustifiable means, and held it
by such an exceptionable title, had yet, by his valor, prudence, and
address, accustomed the people to the yoke, and had obtained a greater
ascendant over his haugh