Catus Decianus, who had fled to Gaul, is replaced by Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus, who has expressed concern to the Emperor Nero that the punitive policies of the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, will lead to continued hostilities.

Nero dispatches his freedman, Polyclitus, to lead an inquiry.

An excuse, that Suetonius had lost some ships, is found to relieve him of command and replace him with the more conciliatory Publius Petronius Turpilianus.

The historian Suetonius tells us the crisis had almost persuaded Nero to abandon Britain.