Jack Cade Rebellion of 1450

This book collects, for the first time, primary documents associated with the Jack Cade Rebellion that have been translated into Present-Day English. It includes the rebels’ petitions, entries from medieval and early modern chronicles, letters and formal correspondences, official government documents, and political poems of the fifteenth century.

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 Rebell