[1] After which proclamation thus published, a gentle|man of Kent named Alexander Eden awaited so his time,Capteine of Kent taken & beheaded. that he tooke the said Cade in a garden in Sussex: so that there he was slaine at Hothfield, and brought to London in a cart, where he was quarte|red; his head set on London bridge, and his quarters sent to diuers places to be set vp in the shire of Kent. After this, the king himselfe came into Kent, and there sat in iudgement vpon the offendors: and if he had not mingled his iustice with mercie; more than fiue hundred by rigor of law had beene iustlie put to [page 636] execution. Yet he punishing onelie the stubborne heads, & disordered ringleaders, pardoned the igno|rant and simple persons, to the great reioising of all his subiects. Abr. Fl. ex I. St. 663, 664. ΒΆ But saith another, the king sent his commissioners into Kent, and caused inquirie to be made of this riot in Canturburie, where for the same eight men were iudged and executed, and in other townes of Kent and Sussex was doone the like exe|cution.