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pointment of the good men of Salisbury at Richard's 

 visit was caused by contemplation — not of how little 

 they got out of Richard, but of how much Richard got 

 out of them. For the kind king had an amiable inclina- 

 tion towards charging his subjects with his outings ; 

 and as his household consisted of ten thousand per- 

 sons, three hundred of whom were cooks, and as this 

 enormous train had tables supplied them at the king's 

 expense ; some good quarters of an hour were spent by 

 the purveyors, whose action was one of the chief reasons 

 of public discontent, and who, no doubt, gave Salisbury 

 good reason for recollecting their activity. 



The next arrival of importance at Salisbury was one 

 of the four quarters of Jack Cade, a fifteenth century 

 politician, of Irish origin, who held views on deep 

 questions of rent and labour extremely in vogue at the 

 present day but which in 1450 were, unfortunately for 

 Cade, premature. Yes, like all really great men, Cade 

 was considered to be before his time ! And so instead 

 of being returned to Parliament as a Home Ruler, a 

 price was set on his head, and he was killed by a 

 Liberal Unionist of the period, one Iden, a gentleman 

 of Sussex. Not however before Cade had had a good 

 time of it with the fifteenth century unemployed, who 

 saying (and quite correctly) in their hearts, " There are 

 no police," demonstrated in London for some time, 

 unopposed by law and the authorities, till a rich house 

 or two were broken into, and plundered, when the 

 Londoners felt that the time was come for action, and 

 took the law into their own hands. 



Thirty-four years after Cade had suffered for advanced 

 political principles by having one of his legs exposed in 

 a cathedral town, the hunchbacked Richard honoured 

 Salisbury with his presence ; but he was not I expect in 

 the best of tempers, for here to him was brought the 

 Buckingham we have all read of in the play, who had just 

 seized the fleeting opportunity to head an insurrection 

 against the king, in an unprecedentedly wet season in 



