Battle of Wakefield

• • Early Dec – York + Salisbury left London + went north. Warwick + DONorfolk remained in London
  • Passed through Notts – Scouts send ahead to Worksop – attacked + killed by Somerset’s men  
  • Just before Christmas – arrived at York’s castles at Sandal, Yorks. Few provisions in the town + Queen’s army was large.
• • 30th Dec – Attempt to suppress MOA army at Wakefield – disastrous defeat + death of York
  • Salisbury beheaded by Lanc. captors at Pontefract 
  • Heads of York + Salisbury displayed on gates of city of York + paper crown placed on York’s head