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A FAILED medieval rebel who dared to take on the king was remembered on the edge of a small Yorkshire village on Saturday - 600 years after he was executed and quartered.
Among those remembering the Battle of Bramham Moor, fought near Wetherby, was a descendent of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, who tried to usurp Henry IV.
On February 19, 1408, aged 66, he led a force of Scots and Northumbrians against a better-trained yeoman army under Sir Thomas Rokeby, High Sheriff of Yorkshire. It is thought Rokeby's longbowmen managed to...