Common petition requesting that those rebels beheaded during the rising be judged convicted felons
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The commons of the realm state that the rebels in the late uprising had certain leaders, such as Walter Tylere in Kent, Jack Strawe in Essex, John Hanchach in Cambridgeshire and Robert Phippe in Huntingdonshire, who were not convicted by process of law, but caught committing treason and beheaded by the king's ministers, to prevent their rescue by their followers; the commons request that they be adjudged and declared in this parliament as convicted rebels and felons, just as if this had been done by due process of law, for their heirs are demanding their lands and tenements as if they had died as the king's loyal lieges.
