Commons of the realm. King and council. The commons of the realm state that the rebels...

Petitioners

Commons of the realm.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The commons of the realm state that the rebels in the late uprising had certain leaders, such as Walter Tylere in Kent, Jack Strawe in Essex, John Hanchach in Cambridgeshire and Robert Phippe in Huntingdonshire, who were not convicted by process of law, but caught committing treason and beheaded by the king's ministers, to prevent their rescue by their followers; the commons request that they be adjudged and declared in this parliament as convicted rebels and felons, just as if this had been done by due process of law, for their heirs are demanding their lands and tenements as if they had died as the king's loyal lieges.

Nature of endorsement

It is agreed in this present parliament that those who were put to death during the insurrection are to be considered as convicted felons.

Places mentioned

Essex

Kent

Cambridgeshire

Huntingdonshire.

People mentioned

Walter (Wat) Tylere (Tyler)

Jack Strawe (Straw)

John Hanchach

Robert Phippe.

For transcript, see no.47 of PRO 31/7/109

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.175a, no. 1 (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Parliament of October 1385, Appendix no. 10 (summary of petition)