{"id":191,"date":"2020-03-28T21:02:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:32:48","slug":"614-household-words-conducted-by","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/household-words-2\/614-household-words-conducted-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 614"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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614 HOUSEHOLD WORDS. [Conducted by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ship, carrying a\nhundred and fifty men and called the Nicholas of the Tower, came along\u00adside his\nlittle vessel, and ordered him on board. \u201cWelcome, traitor, as men say,\u201d was\nthe captain\u2019s grim and not very respectful salutation. He was kept on board, a\nprisoner, for eight-and-forty hours, and then a small boat appeared rowing\ntowards the ship. As this boat came nearer, it was seen to have in it a block,\na rusty sword, and an executioner in a black mask. The duke was handed down\ninto it, and there his head was cut off with six strokes of the rusty sword.\nThen, the little boat rowed away to Dover beach, where the body was cast out,\nand left until the duchess claimed it. By whom, high in. au\u00adthority, this\nmurder was committed, has never appeared. No one was ever punished for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There now arose in Kent an\nIrishman, who gave himself the name of Mortimer, but whose real name was Jack\nCade. Jack, in imitation of Wat Tyler, though he was a very different and\ninferior sort of man, addressed the Kentish men upon their wrongs, occa\u00adsioned\nby the bad government of England, among so many battledores and such a poor\nshuttlecock; and they rose up to the number of twenty thousand. Their place of\nassembly was Blackheath, where, headed by Jack, they put forth two papers,\nwhich they called “The Complaint of the Commons of Kent,\u201d and \u201cThe\nRequests of the. Captain of the Great Assembly in Kent.\u201d They then retired to\nSevenoaks. The royal army coming, up with them here, they beat it and killed\ntheir general. Then, Jack dressed himself in the dead general\u2019s armour, and led\nhis men to London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack passed into the City from\nSouthwark, over the bridge, and entered it in triumph, giving the strictest\norders to his men not to plunder. Having made a show of his forces there, while\nthe citizens looked on quietly, he went back into Southwark in good order, and\npassed the night. Next day, he came back again, having got hold in the meantime\nof Lord. Say, an unpopular nobleman. Says Jack to the Lord Mayor and judges: \u201cWill\nyou be so good as to make a tribunal in Guildhall, and try me this nobleman?\u201d\nThe court being hastily made, he was found guilty, and Jack and his men cut his\nhead off on Cornhill. They also cut off the head of his son-in-law, and then\nwent back in good order to Southwark again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, although the citizens could\nbear the beheading of an unpopular lord, they could not bear to have their\nhouses pillaged. And it did so happen that Jack, after dinner\u2014 perhaps he had\ndrunk a little too much\u2014 began to plunder the house where he lodged; upon\nwhich, of course, his men began to imitate him. Wherefore, the Londoners took\ncounsel with Lord Scales, who had a thousand soldiers in the Tower; and\ndefended London Bridge, and kept Jack and his people out. This advantage\ngained, it was resolved by divers great men to divide Jack\u2019s army in the old\nway, by making a great many promises on behalf of the state, that were never\nintended to be performed. This did divide them some of Jack\u2019s men saying that\nthey ought to take the conditions which were offered and others saying that\nthey ought not, for they were only a snare; some going home at once; others\nstaying where they were; and all doubting and quarrelling among themselves.\nJack, who was in two minds about fighting or accepting a pardon, and who indeed\ndid both, saw at last that there was nothing to expect from his men, and that\nit was very likely some of them would deliver him up and get a reward of a\nthousand marks, which was offered for his apprehension. So, after they had\ntravelled and quarrelled all the way from Southwark to Blackheath, and from\nBlackheath to Rochester, he mounted a good horse and galloped away into Sussex.\nBut, there galloped after him, on a better horse, one Alexander Iden, who had a\nhard fight with him, and killed him. Jack\u2019s head was set aloft on London\nBridge, with the face looking towards Blackheath, where he had raised his flag;\nand Alexander Iden got the thousand marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is supposed by some, that the\nDuke of York, who had been removed from a high post abroad through the Queen\u2019s\ninfluence, and sent out of the way, to govern Ireland, was at the bottom of\nthis rising of Jack and his men, because he wanted to trouble the Government.\nHe claimed (though not yet. publicly) to. have a better right to the throne\nthan Henry of Lancaster, as one of the family of the Earl of March, whom Henry\nthe Fourth had set aside. Touching this claim, which, being through female\nrelationship, was not according to. the usual descent, it is enough to say that\nHenry the Fourth was the free choice of the people and the Parlia\u00adment, and\nthat his family had now reigned undisputed for sixty years. The memory of Henry\nthe Fifth was so famous, and the English people loved it so much, that the Duke\nof York\u2019s claim would, perhaps, never have been thought of (it would have been\nso hopeless) but for the unfortunate circumstance of the present King\u2019s being\nby this time quite an idiot, and the country very badly governed. These two\ncircumstances gave the Duke of York a power he could not otherwise have had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether the Duke knew anything\nof Jack Cade, or not, he came over from Ireland while Jack\u2019s head was on London\nBridge; being secretly advised that the Queen was setting up his enemy, the\nDuke of Somerset, against him. He went to Westminster at the head of four\nthousand men, and on his knees before the King, represented to him the bad\nstate of the country, and petitioned him to summon a Parliament to consider it.\nThis the King pro\u00admised. When the Parliament was summoned
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614 HOUSEHOLD WORDS. [Conducted by ship, carrying a hundred and fifty men and called the Nicholas of the Tower, came along\u00adside his little vessel, and ordered him on board. \u201cWelcome, traitor, as men say,\u201d was the captain\u2019s grim and not very respectful salutation. He was kept on board, a prisoner, for eight-and-forty hours, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":664,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions\/740"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}