John Shirle of Nottingham was arrested on the grounds that at the time of the rising he wandered through various counties spreading lies and falsehoods; and he said in an inn in Bridge Street, Cambridge, that the king's officials should be hanged rather than John Balle, who was a true and honest man, whose death would not go unpunished. He was questioned as to these allegations in Cambridge Castle; he admitted his guilt and was hanged.
