[582] Leadam, E. H. R., pp. 684–696. The tenants at Thingden, in their proceedings against Mulsho, “calle commen Councelles ... and make a commen purse among them, promising all of them to take parte with other, saying that xx. of them would spend xx. score pounds ayenet the said John Mulsho.” The tenants of Abbot’s Ripton “procured one common purse to be ordeyned together one common stock to thentent obstinately to defend their perverse and ffrowned appetitez.” As to Rents, see L. and P. Henry VIII., xii., I., 154: “In many counties little or no ferms will they pay" (Darcy to Shrewsbury).
[583] Gairdner, L. and P. Henry VIII., xii., I., 392.
[584] Proclamation of July 22, 1549. Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, who remarks that these village officers, “in the places where these risings were, had been the very ringleaders and procurers by their example and exhortation.”
[585] Commonweal of this Realm of England (Lamond), Appendix to Introduction, lviii.: “In dyvers places wher we were, and wher the people had just cause of Gryef, and have complayned a great many yeares without remedy, there have they byn very quiet, shewed themselves most humble and obedient subiectes taryenge the Kynges Maiesties Reformation.”
[586] Original Papers of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, 1905, p. 2.
[587] Original Papers of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, 1905, p. 22.
[588] Ket refused the pardon offered on July 31st on the ground that the insurgents had committed no offence requiring to be pardoned, and fighting followed. On August 23rd a pardon was again offered. While it was being read by a herald, a boy standing by insulted him “with words as unseemly as his gesture was filthy" (Holinshed), and was shot by one of the herald’s retinue. Ket tried to pacify the anger of his followers at what they took to be treachery, but without effect.
[589] Original Papers of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, 1905, p. 20.
[590] Printed by Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, vol. ii. p. 40.
[591] Gairdner, L. and P. of Henry VIII., xi. 1246.