A traitor death

(While I know I keep advancing in time, I think i'll  go couple a few years in future issue, I may have skip a few things)

So today I've decide to look into the reason why Henry Carey seem to have a few issue with issuing the execution of the earl of Northumberland. To give futher context, what happen after the failure of the rebellion the earl tried to fleed to Scotland only to be sold back to england for 2000 pounds and sent to Berwick. (Source).  Its not really that Henry Carey was a guy who had a lot of ahead of his time idea regarding the death penalty. In fact several years later he will say that he is more use  with hanging than hunting or hawking (source). Remember he job involves law enforcement and execution are quite common as punishment at the time. Weirdly enough should you look at the previous page of the work, it will say that he preferred to talk hound and Hawks rather than political matters.

The answer seem to present itself in the Memorial of the rebellion of 1569. Page 331, sorta start with telling us that Elizabeth asked Hunsdon to use any mean necessary to get a confession out of him. Exactly what method he use for his interrogation, a bit hard to say for sure, but the rest of the page give us the answer is that apparently he though (if I am reading this correctly) that the the execution of nobleman wasn't of his domain as his he was charge of the warden and of Berwick. I guess the "Justification in giving him to Sir John Forster maybe that he was warden of middle marches and so technically the earl was of his territory.

Also if you want an idea of how brutal the rebellion got Berwick-upon-Tweed: The History of the Town and Guild will tell you on page 170 that Hundson, Essex and destroyed 90 castles and lay waste to 300 villages.