The news of the French successes was at once followed by an outbreak of national wrath.

Political ballads denounced Suffolk as the ape with his clog that had tied Talbot, the good "dog" who was longing to grip the Frenchmen.

When the Bishop of Chichester, who had been sent to pay the sailors at Portsmouth, strove to put off the men with less than their due, they fell on him and slew him.
Suffolk was impeached, and only saved from condemnation by submitting himself to the king's mercy.

He was sent into exile, but as he crossed the sea he was intercepted by a ship of Kentishmen, beheaded, and his body thrown on the sands at Dover.
[Sidenote: Revolt of Kent] Kent was the centre of the national resentment.

It was the great manufacturing district of the day, seething with a busy population, and especially concerned with the French contest through the piracy of the Cinque Ports.