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(d. 1450), English leader of a revolt in Kent, England, against King Henry VI. According to some accounts, Cade was of Irish birth, called himself John Mortimer, and fought for France against England during the Hundred Years' War. The so-called Jack Cade's Rebellion began in late May 1450 as a protest by peasants and small landowners against the seizure of land by nobles, corruption in the courts, heavy taxation, and enforced labor imposed by the Statute of Labourers of 1351. About June 18 Cade defeated a government force at Sevenoaks, Kent, and on July 2 or July 3 entered London, where he was favorably received by the municipality. The rebels forced the London authorities to condemn and execute the sheriff of Kent and his father-in-law, the lord chamberlain under Henry VI. Cade soon thereafter lost his support in London when he resorted to further violence. Most of his men accepted pardons and concessions offered by the king and dispersed. Cade himself received an invalid pardon in the name Mortimer. On July 12 he was hunted down and mortally wounded by the new sheriff of Kent near Heathfield, Sussex.
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