[1] [2] Soone after an other disquiet befell here. Those that fauoured the duke of Yorke, and wished the crowne vpon his head, for that (as they iudged) he had more right thereto than he that ware it, procured a com|motion in Kent on this manner. A certeine yoong man of a goodlie stature and right pregnant of wit,Iacke Cades rebellion in Kent. was intised to take vpon him the name of Iohn Mortimer c [...]fine to the duke of Yorke (although his name was Iohn Cade, or (of some) Iohn Mend-all) [an Irishman as Polychronicon saith] and not for a small policie, thinking by that surname, that those which fauoured the house of the earle of March would be assistant to him. And so in déed it came to passe (as in such cases there is no bréeder of a broile but he shall find adherents enow, no lesse forward to fur|ther his pernicious enterprise by their foolehardines, than himselfe was in the plot of his deuise) though in fine (as it is the vnluckie lot of such tumults) their attempts were withstood, and their offense dulie re|warded, as in processe of the storie shall more at large appeare; according to the wisemans sentence:

Saepe in magistrum scelera redeunt sua.