The Jack Cade Rebellion of 1450

Alexander L. Kaufman is Reed D. Voran Distinguished Professor of Honors Humanities and professor of English at Ball State University.

Part 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