Sir Robert Constable was hanged in chains before the gate of Hull.
[Sidenote: Ireland] The defeat of the northern revolt showed the immense force which the monarchy had gained.

Even among the rebels themselves not a voice had threatened Henry's throne.

It was not at the king that they aimed these blows, but at the "low-born knaves" who stood about the king.

At this moment too Henry's position was strengthened by the birth of an heir.

On the death of Anne Boleyn he had married Jane Seymour, the daughter of a Wiltshire knight; and in 1537 this queen died in giving birth to a boy, the future Edward the Sixth.