Carey vs Dacre

Leonard Dacre had gotten enough time to gather a force of about 3000 people at his Naworth castle (it wasn't up until 1570 that the english seem to go against him), his obstination not to leave his stronghold marked him as much more suspicious. By february 15 it was decided that Henry Carey should apprehend him and five days later the battle would take place. Hundson however decided that it was preferable at first to have reinforcement before assaulting the castle, however Dacre decided instead to follow the english troops and assault them and act Hunsdon would that was the proudest  charge he saw. (source), mind you it might have the only he saw in his life (since this is the only major battle he was in) . Dacre throwing every he had at him and Hunsdon force being about half of his. The showdown happened at the river gelt.

Henry Carey separated his force from the one of John Foster, warden of the middle marches,  leaving him with 500 men and charged Dacre Foot with horses. Saying his force slayed between 300 and 400 people and captured between 200 and 300.  I sorta wondered how exactly Hundson could have defeat a force that was half of his, if previously he had judged that he didn't have people. Maybe his troops were of better quality or terrain or perhaps there is mild exaggeration. It seem that once he had managed to stand his ground against Dacre men, he was in position to flank them and despiste their numerical advantage the rebels fled .  ). When things turned sour they scattered. While Elizabeth was planning to hang 600 of them Henry and local magistrate decided to lower the number of execution(source, who also has the good word put in by Elizabeth for his victory) . He also tried to preven the execution of Lord Northerburland , a major player of the rebellion, but to no avail. (source) prefering to send the man to another jurisdiction than to his.

One thing that apparently is odd about this is that a lot of Dacre forces seem to have been made of women(source) Dacre fled to Scotland and seem to have died in exile a few years later.

Hundson victory actually his mentionned in the Faerie Queen. Here the extract.  . I also found this who claim that Dacre challenged Hundson to single combat to settle the claim of the two queen, but its the only time I saw it is in the stray leaves of history,  (source. Page 326) but also Catholic world where apparently Dacre asked for single combat with Hundson to decide the faith of the kingdom and who between the two queens would rule it, but its the only place I saw it.

You can see Sir Hundson account of the battle and a lot about the rebellion in the memorial of the 1569 at page 219. Though mind you its actually a though read because a lot of the text is written by the standard of the time. The devon Cary also talk about the battle (source)