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counsel; whereupon the meaner sort routed together 

 and suddenly assailing the earl in his house, slew 

 him, and divers of his servants : and rested not there, 

 but creating for their leader Sir John Egremont, a 

 factious person, and one that had of a long time born 

 an ill talent towards the king : and being animated 

 also by a base fellow, called John a Chamber, a very 

 &quot; boutefeu,&quot; who bare much sway amongst the vulgar 

 and popular, entered into open rebellion ; and gave 

 out in flat terms that they would go against King 

 Henry, and fight with him for the maintenance of 

 their liberties. 



When the king was advertised of this new insur 

 rection, bt ing almost a fever that took him every 

 year, after his manner little troubled therewith, he 

 sent Thomas, Earl of Surrey, whom he had a little 

 before not only released out of the Tower, and par 

 doned, but also received to special favour, with a 

 competent power against the rebels, who fought 

 with the principal band of them, and defeated them, 

 and took alive John a Chamber their firebrand. As 

 for Sir John Egremont, he fled into Flanders to the 

 Lady Margaret of Burgundy, whose palace was the 

 sanctuary and receptacle of all traitors against the 

 king. John a Chamber was executed at York in 

 great state ; for he was hanged upon a gibbet raised 

 a stage higher in the midst of a square gallows, as a 

 traitor paramount ; and a number of his men that 

 were his chief complices, were hanged upon the lower 

 story round about him ; and the rest were generally 

 pardoned. Neither did the king himself omit his 



