The Rising of the North green plaque

Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

The Rising of the North In November 1569, hundreds of rebels assembled in this Market Place with the aim of re-establishing Catholic worship in the North. They swiftly captured Barnard Castle on the River Tees and widely reinstated the Mass, but by January the rebellion had failed and great numbers

had been hanged here and elsewhere as traitors.

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