[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] The foure and twentith of Aprill Thomas Staf|ford, second sonne to the lord Stafford, with other to the number of two and thirtie persons, comming forth of France by sea, arriued at Scarborough in Yorkeshire, where they tooke the castell, and held the same two daies, and then were taken without ef|fusion of bloud by the earle of Westmerland. The said Stafford and Richard Sanders, otherwise cal|led capteine Sanders,Stafford and others com|mitted to the tower, and af|ter executed. with three or foure others, of the which one was a Frenchman, were sent vp to London, & there committed to prison in the tower. The said Stafford and foure others were arreigned and condemned. Wherevpon the eight and twentith of Maie, being fridaie, the said Stafford was behea|ded on the tower hill; and on the morrow thrée of his companie, as Strellie, Bradford, and Proctor, were drawen from the tower to Tiborne, and there execu|ted. Their heads were set ouer the bridge, and their quarters ouer the gates about the same citie. Cap|teine Sanders had his pardon, and so escaped. The first of Maie Thomas Persie was made knight,Thomas Persie crea|ted earle of Northum|berland. and after lord, and on the next daie he was created earle of Northumberland. The queene gaue vnto him all the lands which had béene his ancestors, re|maining at that time in hir hands.