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C H A P. IV.

Of the many Depredations conmitted by other Rebels in divers pans of the , Kingdom.

WHILE these tumults were thus in agitation by the procurment of John Ball that pernicious Priest before spoken of one John Wraw was sent into Norfolk, and the adjacent countries in order to excite the commons to insurrec- tion; on like motives, and to join with Tyler ; which took so suddenly, that in Hertfordshire, about St Alban s; and at Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, on Corpus Christi Day to the number of fifty thou- sand were assembled under theconduct of one Robert Westborne, an inn keeper, who outrageously destroyed and demolish- ed all the Noblemen and Gentlemens houses of note using the persons ill they found in them and putting to death all the professors of the Law they could find, as tney looked upon them as their great- est enemies.