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 share in the rising, when Henry VI.

and his justices visited Kent in January, 1451.
The revolt failed to amend the wretched misrule.

It remained for civil war to drive Henry VI.

from the throne, and make Edward IV.

of York his successor.
THE NORFOLK RISING UNDER ROBERT KET, 1549 A century after the rising of the commons of Kent came the last great popular rebellion--the Norfolk Rising, led by Ket.