His co-heir '' jure uxoris '' , Sir Gilbert de Stapleton of Carleton , Knt , was a conspirator in the assassination of Piers Gaveston . Sir Miles Stapleton was a founding Knight of the Order of the Garter , who fought at the Siege of Calais and at the Battle of Crécy . The Stapletons were " Lollard knights " and were Lords of the Manor of Bedale for generations . Bedale had traditionally been a Lancastrian area , until the Kingmaker , Clarence and Gloucester obtained Richmond and Middleham Castles . Following the Battle of Bosworth Field , Francis Lovell , 1st Viscount Lovell led the charge of insurgency in the Yorkist Stafford and Lovell Rebellion against Henry VII of England , attainted Earl of Richmond . The inhabitants of the region went on several recusancy strikes , such as the Pilgrimage of Grace and made trouble for John Nevill , 3rd Baron Latymer ( Catherine Parr 's husband before Henry VIII ) in Snape Castle . This continued in the Rising of the North , with Henry VII 's follower Simon Digby of Aiskew executed and replaced by Ambrose Dudley , 3rd Earl of Warwick , whose wife sold it to the native Sir William Theakston & John Jackson , after which it was resold to Cavalier Henry Peirse , whose descendents are remain in town . During the English Civil War , Philip Stapleton continued in much of the same anti-Tudor & Stuart sentiment as Guy Fawkes , whose statement , when asked by one of the Scottish lords what he had intended to do with so much gunpowder , Fawkes answered him , " To blow you Scotch beggars back to your own native mountains ! " Middleham Castle was subsequently ordered to be demolished by the Parliamentarians so that the Royalists could not take it again . However , there is no documentary proof that this order was ever carried out
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
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