(Hello, this is Histories, a free weekly email exploring first-hand accounts from the corners of history… Do please share this with fellow history fans and subscribe.) And they lay at Mile End without Aldgate, and so they besieged the city, and then was London Bridge drawn and the gates of the city kept with men of arms.
The story I heard was that Henry VI did issue a pardon to Cade, who then lived for some months peaceably at home in Kent. But, being urged-on by his vindictive missus, Margaret of Anjou, the king then revoked his pardon. Then Cade was mortally-wounded while resisting those sent to arrest him and, as described, after he died his mortal remains were abused in-line with the infantile mentality of the times. British history is littered with examples of perfidy on part of the Establishment. It would make interesting reading if 'Histories' could find accounts of Nelson's dishonourable conduct in his part in crushing the Neapolitan uprising in 1799.
The story I heard was that Henry VI did issue a pardon to Cade, who then lived for some months peaceably at home in Kent. But, being urged-on by his vindictive missus, Margaret of Anjou, the king then revoked his pardon. Then Cade was mortally-wounded while resisting those sent to arrest him and, as described, after he died his mortal remains were abused in-line with the infantile mentality of the times. British history is littered with examples of perfidy on part of the Establishment. It would make interesting reading if 'Histories' could find accounts of Nelson's dishonourable conduct in his part in crushing the Neapolitan uprising in 1799.