following day Lord Say-and-Sele, and his son-in-law, Crowmer, Sheriff
of Kent, were removed by Cade's orders from the Tower to the Guildhall,
tried for "divers treasons" and "certain extortions," and quickly beheaded.
Popular hatred, not content with this, placed the heads of the fallen
minister and his son-in-law on poles, made them kiss in horrible embrace,
and then bore them off in triumph to London Bridge.

A third man, one John Bailey, was also hanged for being a necromancer; and
as Cade had promised death to all in his army convicted of theft, it fell
out that certain "lawless men" paid the penalty for disobedience, and were
hanged in Southwark--where the main body of the army lay.

Cade's difficulties began directly after Lord Say-and-Sele's execution.
London assented willingly to the death of an unpopular statesman, but had
no mind to provision an army of 50,000 men, and, indeed, had no liking for
the proximity of such a host. Plunder being forbidden, and strict
discipline the rule, the urgent question for the Captain of Kent was how
the army was to be maintained.

Getting no voluntary help from the city. Cade decided that he must help
himself. He supped with a worthy citizen named Curtis in Tower Street on
July 4th, and insisted before he left that Curtis must contribute money for
the support of the Kentish men. Curtis complied--how much he gave we know
not--but he resented bitterly the demand, and he told the tale of his
wrongs to his fellow-merchants.[44] The result was that while Cade slept in
peace as usual at the White Hart, the Mayor and Corporation took counsel
with Lord Scales, the Governor of the Tower, and resolved that at all costs
the Captain of Kent and his forces must be kept out of the city. After the
treatment of Curtis the fear was that disorder and pillage might become
common.

On the evening of Sunday, July 5th, and all through the night battle waged
hotly on London Bridge, which had been seized and fortified before Cade was
awake, and by the morning the rebels, unsuccessful in their attack, were
glad to agree to a hasty truce.

The truce gave opportunity to Cardinal Kemp, Archbishop of York, the King's
Chancellor, to suggest a lasting peace to Cade. Messengers were sent
speedily from the Tower, where Kemp, with Archbishop Stafford, of
Canterbury, had stayed in safety, to the White Hart, urging a conference
"to the end that the civil commotions and disturbances might cease and
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