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”’John Constantine”’ was a [[Worshipful Company of Cordwainers|cordwainer]] and a close advisor and relative by marriage of the [[Lord Mayor of London]] [[John Northampton]] who had just lost a contested re-election to [[Nicholas Brembre]]. |
”’John Constantine”’ was a [[Worshipful Company of Cordwainers|cordwainer]] and a close advisor and relative by marriage of the [[Lord Mayor of London]] [[John Northampton]] who had just lost a contested re-election to [[Nicholas Brembre]]. |
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On 11 February 1383 Constantine organised a campaign of shop closures by Northampton’s supporters. “Excited as some will have it, by a spirit sent from the Devil, careered through the streets of London urging the populace to rise against the Mayor [Brembre], whom he declared to be bent on smashing all those who supported John of Northampton”, as the ”Westminster Chronicle” puts it.{{sfn|Cohn|2013|p=41}}{{Sfn|Hanawalt|2017|p=45}} Brembre treated this as an insurrection and had Constantine summarily executed in [[Cheapside]] and his head set above Newgate.{{sfn|Barron|1971|pp=146–147}}{{sfn|Cohn|2013|p=42}} Three months later, a grocer was accused of speaking against Brembre―for “falsely and iniquitously” revenging himself upon Constantine—and in all over sixty people appeared before the mayoral court on such charges. Indeed, they provide the bulk of Brembre’s court business.{{sfn|Cohn|2013|pp=306–307}} |
On 11 February 1383 Constantine organised a campaign of shop closures by Northampton’s supporters. “Excited as some will have it, by a spirit sent from the Devil, careered through the streets of London urging the populace to rise against the Mayor [Brembre], whom he declared to be bent on smashing all those who supported John of Northampton”, as the ”Westminster Chronicle” puts it.{{sfn|Cohn|2013|p=41}}{{Sfn|Hanawalt|2017|p=45}} Brembre treated this as an insurrection and had Constantine summarily executed in [[Cheapside]] and his head set above Newgate.{{sfn|Barron|1971|pp=146–147}}{{sfn|Cohn|2013|p=42}} Three months later, a grocer was accused of speaking against Brembre―for “falsely and iniquitously” revenging himself upon Constantine—and in all over sixty people appeared before the mayoral court on such charges. Indeed, they provide the bulk of Brembre’s court business.{{sfn|Cohn|2013|pp=306–307}} |
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John Constantine was a cordwainer and a close advisor and relative by marriage of the Lord Mayor of London John Northampton who had just lost a contested re-election to Nicholas Brembre for which he was summarily executed.
On 11 February 1383 Constantine organised a campaign of shop closures by Northampton’s supporters. “Excited as some will have it, by a spirit sent from the Devil, careered through the streets of London urging the populace to rise against the Mayor [Brembre], whom he declared to be bent on smashing all those who supported John of Northampton”, as the Westminster Chronicle puts it. Brembre treated this as an insurrection and had Constantine summarily executed in Cheapside and his head set above Newgate. Three months later, a grocer was accused of speaking against Brembre―for “falsely and iniquitously” revenging himself upon Constantine—and in all over sixty people appeared before the mayoral court on such charges. Indeed, they provide the bulk of Brembre’s court business.
- Barron, C. M (1971). “Richard II’s Quarrel with London”. In Du Boulay, F. R. H.; Barron, C. M. (eds.). The Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of May McKisack. London: University of London, Athlone Press. pp. 173–201. OCLC 265036853.
- Cohn, S. K. (2013). Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-10702-780-0.
- Hanawalt, B. (2017). Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19049-043-0.
