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146 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [cu. 53. the wall. Chester ' hurled down with violence the Earl's banner of arms to the ground, his sword, his crest, and then his helmet and mantle ; ' while Garter, waiting below, ' spurned them with like violence from the place where they had fallen, out of the west door of the Chapel, and thence clean out of the uttermost gates of the Castle/ ' Three days later the rebel army was broken up. The men scattered about Yorkshire in parties of two and three hundred, ' spoiling ' for want of other means to feed themselves. Sussex kept close within the walls of York, and let them pursue their retreat unmolested. The Earls divided : Northumberland went straight back to Durham, sending his own people before him to for- tify Alnwick. Westmoreland paused at Barncastle, where a brief success revived his failing spirits. Sir George Bowes was in the castle with 800 men. The Berwick garrison had made an effort to relieve him, but had been unable to leave the Borders. He was scantily provided with arms, and had so little powder that he durst not waste it. Westmoreland had brought fal- conets and other small fieldpieces with him, and as Bowes was short of provisions besides his other de- ficiencies, Sussex sent him word that he had better let his ' horse ' cut their way out at night and make their way to York, and himself hold the keep till relief could reach him. The horse escaped as Sussex directed, but Bowes himself was less fortunate. The garrison muti- 1 MSS. Domestic, November, 1569.