... Then the commons of Kent arose and had chosen them a captain the
which named himself John Mortimer, whose very true name was John Cade,
and he was an Irishman, and so he come to Blackheath with the commons
of Kent. And the King with all his lords made them ready with all their
power for to withstand him.... And the Mayor of London with the commons
of the city came unto the King beseeching him that he would tarry in
the city and they would live and die with him and pay for the cost of
his household an half year; but he would not, but took his journey to
Kenilworth. And when the King was gone, the captain with the commons of
Kent came again to Blackheath. And the iij^{rd} day of July he came to
London; and as soon as they came to London they robbed Phillip Malpas.
And the iiij^{th} day of July he beheaded Crowmer and another man at
Mile End; and the same day at afternoon the Lord Say was fetched out of
the Tower to the Guild Hall for the mayor to have judgement, and when
he came before the mayor he said he would be judged by his peers. And
then the commons of Kent took him from the officers and led him to the
Standard in Cheap and there smote off his head. And then the captain
did draw him through London, and over London Bridge to Saint Thomas,
and there he was hanged and quartered, and his head and Crowmer's head
and another man's head were set on London Bridge.... And the v^{th} day
of July at night (and being Sunday) the commons of London set upon the
commons of Kent, for they began to rob.... Then the xij^{th} day of
July was in every shire proclaimed that what man that could take the
aforesaid captain and bring him to the King quick or dead, should have
a thousand marks, and as for any man that belonged to him x marks; for
it was openly known that his name was not Mortimer, his name was John
Cade.... And so one Alexander Iden, a squire of Kent, took him in a
garden in Southsea the xiij^{th} day of July; and in the taking of him
he was hurt and died that same night, and on the morrow he was brought
into the King's Bench, and after was drawn through London and his head
set on London Bridge.