Smith. The clerk of Chatham; he can write, and read, and cast accompt.
Cade. O, monstrous! Come hither, sirrah. I must examine thee. What is thy name?
Clerk. Emmanuel.
Dick. They used to write it on the top of letters. ‘Twill go hard with you.
Cade. Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name, or hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest plain–dealing man?
Clerk. Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up that I can write my name.
All. He hath confessed: away with him: he’s a villain and a traitor.
Cade. Away with him, I say: hang him with his pen and inkhorn about his neck.
Henry VI., ii. iv. 2.
It is time, however, to proceed to the historical evidence on which our statements of the excesses of the Jacquerie are founded.