R. W. Hoyle
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198208747
- eISBN:
- 9780191716980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208747.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
The rising in the East Riding was nothing more than a northwards extension of the Lincolnshire rebellion. This opinion was held by no less than Robert Aske himself. News of events in Lincolnshire was ...
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The rising in the East Riding was nothing more than a northwards extension of the Lincolnshire rebellion. This opinion was held by no less than Robert Aske himself. News of events in Lincolnshire was carried into the East Riding by people travelling northwards through Lincolnshire, taking the ferry over the Humber from Barton-upon-Humber to Hessle, and so passing to Hull. News may also have spread coastwise through Boston and Grimsby to Hull. The beacons fired on the Lincolnshire Wolds were readily visible from the north bank. On October 4 Thomas Darcy had a letter from a friend in Lincolnshire alerting him to the rising at Louth; that same evening Sir Ralph Ellerker the younger sent word that the rebels were burning beacons to increase their numbers. News of the Lincolnshire rising spread in an irresistible fashion and spawned a general panic amongst the East Riding gentry.Less
The rising in the East Riding was nothing more than a northwards extension of the Lincolnshire rebellion. This opinion was held by no less than Robert Aske himself. News of events in Lincolnshire was carried into the East Riding by people travelling northwards through Lincolnshire, taking the ferry over the Humber from Barton-upon-Humber to Hessle, and so passing to Hull. News may also have spread coastwise through Boston and Grimsby to Hull. The beacons fired on the Lincolnshire Wolds were readily visible from the north bank. On October 4 Thomas Darcy had a letter from a friend in Lincolnshire alerting him to the rising at Louth; that same evening Sir Ralph Ellerker the younger sent word that the rebels were burning beacons to increase their numbers. News of the Lincolnshire rising spread in an irresistible fashion and spawned a general panic amongst the East Riding gentry.
