1. For recent accounts of the East Anglian disturbances of 1525, see ibid., ch. 6; D. MacCulloch, Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County, 1500–1600 (Oxford, 1986), pp. 289–99. The social composition of the crowd gathered at Lavenham is discussed in MacCulloch, Suffolk, pp. 294–7; R. L. Woods, ‘Individuals in the Rioting Crowd: A New Approach’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XIV (1983), 1–24.
2. What follows is based upon Griffith’s account: see HMC, Welsh MSS, I, ii–v, supplemented by E. Hall, Chronicle of the History of England during the Reign of Henry IV and the Succeeding Monarchs, to the End of the Reign of Henry VIII (London, 1809), pp. 696–702; R. Holinshed, Chronicles: England, Scotland and Ireland, 6 vols (London, 1807–8), III, 709–10.
3. Hall, Chronicle, p. 700. Griffith gives Grene’s response as follows: ‘they knew no captain other than Poverty, which caused them to rise and do that which was not lawful for them to do’: HMC, Welsh MSS, I, iv. On the meaning of the ‘Captain Poverty’ allusion, see M. L. Bush, ‘Captain Poverty and the Pilgrimage of Grace’, Historical Research, CLVI (1992), 17
4. For more on this, see A. Wood, ‘The Place of Custom in Plebeian Political Culture: England, 1550–1800’, Social History, XXII (1997), 46–60.
5. On the fens, see PRO, STAC8/5/21. On Nidderdale, see PRO, STAC8/227/3. 4, 8. On the under-researched subject of women’s riot, see R. A. Houl-brooke, ‘Women’s Social Life and Common Action in England from the Fifteenth-Century to the Eve of the Civil War’, Continuity and Change, I (1986), 171–89.