Fergal Leonard

PhD student at @durham_history, studying society, governance, and politics on the 16th-century Anglo-Scottish borders. Funded by @wolfsonfdn.

[Fergal Leonard @FergalDMLeonard]

@joecrayston @GroomB @KjKesselring ...and in the end was the only rebel to risk everything in battle.

(Even if he only did that when he had no choice, and if Hunsdon is to be believed, was “the fyrst man that fled... and as I thynke neuer lookyd behynd hym tyll he was yn lyddysdale." I never said he was great!).

[Fergal Leonard @FergalDMLeonard]

@joecrayston @GroomB @KjKesselring So I'm quite sympathetic to poor old Leonard Dacre. Unscrupulous, ineffective, and perhaps fearful, he at least refused to make the ultimate betrayal in seizing the defeated, hopeless rebels who came to him for shelter on a cold night in December 1569...