y be restored."

Cade consented, and when the two Archbishops, with William Waynfleet,
Bishop of Winchester, met the Captain of Kent in the Church of St.
Margaret, Southwark, and promised that Parliament should give consideration
to the "Complaints" and "Requests" of the commons, and that a full pardon
should be given to all who would straightway return home, the rising was at
an end.

Cade hesitated, and asked for the endorsement of the pardons by Parliament;
but this was plainly impossible because Parliament was not sitting. The
bulk of the commons were satisfied with their pardons, and with the promise
that Parliament would attend to their grievances. There was nothing to be
gained, it seemed, by remaining in arms. On July 8th, the rebel army had
broken up, taking the road back to the towns and villages, farms and
cottages in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. Cade, with a small band of followers,
retreated to Rochester, and attempted without success, the capture of
Queenborough Castle. On the news that the commons had dispersed from
Southwark, the Government at once took the offensive. Alexander Iden was
appointed Sheriff of Kent, and, marrying Crowmer's widow, subsequently
gained considerable profit. Within a week John Cade was proclaimed by the
King's writ a false traitor throughout the countryside, and Sheriff Iden
was in eager pursuit--for a reward of 1,000 marks awaited the person who
should take Cade, alive or dead.

Near Heathfield, in Sussex, Cade, broken and famished, was found by Iden,
and fought his last fight on July 13th, preferring to die sword in hand
than to perish by the hangman. He fell before the overwhelming odds of the
sheriff and his troops, and the body was immediately sent off to London for
identification.

The landlady of the White Hart proved the identity of the dead captain, and
all that remained was to stick the head on London Bridge, and dispatch the
quartered body to Blackheath, Norwich, Salisbury and Gloucester for public
exhibition.

Iden got the 1,000 marks reward and, in addition, the governorship of
Rochester Castle at a salary of L36 a year.

By special Act of Attainder all Cade's goods, lands and tenements were made
forfeit to the Crown, and statements were published for the discrediting of
Cade's life.

No allusion was made in Parliament to the "Complaints" and "Requests," and,
in spite of Cardinal Kemp's pardons, a number of men were hanged at
Canterbury and Rochester for their