On 24 December 1569, he was actually commended by Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, lieutenant-general of the army of the north, for his honourable service against the rebels.
On 20 January 1570, he wrote to Cecil that he had received the lord-lieutenant's orders for taking Dacre into custody but that it would be hard to winkle him out of Naworth.
Dacre was too wary to leave his stronghold and replied that he was confined to his bed by an ague but added that if Scrope and his colleagues would take dinner at Naworth, they should have his company and the best advice that his simple head could devise.
[3] 'The Dacre tenantry rose splendidly to the occasion on behalf of their ancestral lords, giving what Hunsdon himself described as 'the proudest charge upon my shot that ever I saw'.
'[4] However, their attack was repulsed, and Hunsdon, although outnumbered by a factor of two, charged Dacre's foot with his cavalry, killing between 300 and 400 of the rebels and taking between 200 and 300 prisoners.
In the same year he wrote to Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, to urge Philip II of Spain to take more energetic means relative to England, as the refugees were without hope.
A Latin epitaph upon a monumental stone formerly visible in the church of St. Nicholas at Brussels records that he died in that city on 12 August 1573, then about 40.