Here however his men quarrelled over the plunder; his force broke up, and Cade himself was slain by Iden, the Sheriff of Kent, as he fled into Sussex.
[Sidenote: York and the Beauforts] Kent remained restless through the year, and a rising in Wiltshire showed the growing and widespread trouble of the time.

The "Complaint" indeed had only been received to be laid aside.

No attempt was made to redress the grievances which it stated or to reform the government.

On the contrary the main object of popular hate, the Duke of Somerset, was at once recalled from Normandy to take his place at the head of the royal Council.
York on the other hand, whose recall had been pressed in the "Complaint," was looked upon as an open foe.

"Strange language," indeed, had long before the Kentish rising been uttered about the Duke.