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Book SynopsisThe Jack Cade Rebellion of 1450 was an uprising of the commons of Englandmost of whom were from Kent, Norfolk, and Essexthat culminated in a battle on London Bridge. The rebel force, led by a mysterious man known as Jack Cade, protested King Henry VI's ineffectiveness as a leader, the over-taxation of the working classes, the crown's failed attempts to secure French territories, and the corrupt bureaucrats and church officials. This book collects, for the first time, primary documents related to the rebellion that have been translated into Present-Day English or glossed for ease of reading. The sources included in this book comprise the rebels' petitions, entries from medieval and early modern chronicles, letters and formal correspondences, official government documents, and political poems of the fifteenth century. Students interested in urban history, popular rebellions, medieval and early modern studies, legal studies, criminal justice, Shakespeare, and artistic expressions of prote
Table of ContentsPart I: Medieval and Early Modern Chronicles Chapter 1: From Robert Bale’s Chronicle Chapter 2: From John Benet’s Chronicle, Translated from Latin into English by Molly A. Martin Chapter 3: From An English Chronicle, 1377-1461 Chapter 4: From A Short English Chronicle Chapter 5: From A Chronicle of London in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Gough London 10 45 Chapter 6: From Gregory’s Chronicle Chapter 7: From Ingulph’s Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland Chapter 8: From John Stone’s Chronicle Chapter 9: From the Middle English Prose Brut Chapter 10: From A Chronicle of London in London, British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A XVI Chapter 11: From The Great Chronicle of London Chapter 12: From Robert Fabyan’s The New Chronicles of England and France Chapter 13: From John Mair’s Historia Maioris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae (History of Greater Britain) Chapter 14: From Hall’s Chronicle Chapter 15: From Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia Chapter 16: From George North’s A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels Chapter 17: From Holinshed’s Chronicle Chapter 18: From William Martyn’s The Historie, and Lives, of the Kings of England Part II: Documents of the Government and Rebels, Personal Correspondences Chapter 19: The Rebels’ Bills of Complaint of 1450 Chapter 20: The Proclamation by King Henry VI Authorizing the Taking of John Cade, With Latin Translations by Evan Golightly Chapter 21: Letters from Jack Cade to Sir Thomas Cook Chapter 22: The Pardon Roll of July 1450 Chapter 23: From The Antient Kalendars and Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty’s Exchequer Chapter 24: From the Parliament Rolls of England Chapter 25: From the Paston Letters Part III: Political Poems of the Fifteenth Century Chapter 26: “On the Arrest of the Duke of Suffolk” Chapter 27: “A Warning to King Henry” Chapter 28: “Verses Against the Duke of Suffolk” Chapter 29: “For Jake Napes Sowle, Placebo and Dirige,”Latin Translations by Molly A. Martin Chapter 30: “On the Corruption of the Times I” Chapter 31: “On the Corruption of the Times II” Chapter 32: Robin Hood and the Monk
