[1] [2] For the king hearing of this businesse, sent foorth Thomas earle of Surreie (whome not long before he had deliuered out of the Tower,Thomas erle of Surrie sent with a power against the north rebels. and receiued to his speciall fauour) with a crue of men, to chastise those rebels of the north parts, who skirmished with a cer|teine companie of them, and them discomfited, and tooke aliue Iohn a Chamber, the first beginner of this rebellion. The king himselfe road after into Yorkeshire, of whose comming the sturdie rebels were so abashed and afraid, that they fled more and lesse: which afterward were apprehended, and puni|shed [page 770] according to their demerits. Yet the king of his clemencie pardoned the innocent people, and ex|ecuted the chiefe procurers.Iohn a Chã|ber hanged like an arch|traitor. For Iohn a Chamber was hanged at Yorke on a gibbet set vpon a square paire of gallowes like an archtraitor, and his com|plices and lowd disciples were hanged on the lower gallowes round about their maister, to the terrible example of other.