Historical Literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion

Accounts of Jack Cade''s 1450 Rebellion-an uprising of some 30,000 middle-class citizens, protesting Henry VI''s policies, and resulting in hundreds of deaths as well as the leaders'' execution-form the dominant entry in a group of quasi-historical documents referred to as the London chronicles of the Fifteenth Century. However, each chronicle is inherently different and highly subjective. In the ...