Epox!

Hello and welcome back to Epox where I shall be continuing the story of the Wars of the Roses,

beginning with basically Henry VI.

So if you remember last time, we left off talking all about that sort of stuff.

Let's just carry on straight away.

If you remember last time, we'd got to the point roughly where there'd been some blood drawn on

both sides, the Lancasterian side with King Henry the Sixth, who's infirmed and feeble-minded

and his wife, Margaret of Angeu and the various people around him, Suffolk. They'd got rid of the

Duke of Gloucester, the King's uncle, Henry V's younger brother. They'd humiliated his wife and then they'd arrested him and then he'd died very shortly after being arrested. That was sort of first blood, sort of. It goes back before that, of course, but let's say that sort of first blood. Then they struck back. Suffolk himself was a disgraced. the people didn't like him and in the end the king, he was going to be executed, a bit of a tanger from Parliament, but the king just exiled him. And then while he was going to exile, literally while he was on the ship crossing the channel into exile, he was captured by another ship or another Royal Navy ship and executed. So he's gone. And? And then do you remember we talked a bit about the rebellion of Jack Cade,

just some random normal soldier dude,

who tried to rise up against the Lancasterians,

and then that's where we were. That's sort of basically where we got to.

Let's Professor Charles Oman talk all about the different sides,

you know, laying out basically who was in the Yorkist camp and who's in the Lancastering camp and all that sort of thing. I'll continue reading from Professor Sir Charles Oman, an early 20th century Oxford Professor of History, one of the very best to ever do it, as well as Winston Churchill in his history of the English-speaking peoples. I'll just give you a quick, super quick recap about Jack Cade, what Churchill says about Jack Cade. It's literally one short paragraph. So I'll read that and then we'll continue the story on from there with completely new and fresh things. Okay, Churchill says, in June and July, a rising took place in Kent, which the Lancashians claimed to bear the marks of yorkist support. Jack Cade,

a soldier of capacity and bad character, home from the wars, gathered several thousand men,

all summoned in due form by the constables of the district and marched on London. He was admitted

to the city, but on his executing Lord Say, the treasurer in Cheapside, after a mob trial, the magistrates

and citizens turned against him, his followers dispersed under terms of pardon, and he himself

was pursued and killed.

This success, for the Lancashians, basically, restored for the moment the authority of the

government and Henry, that's King Henry VI, the feeble-minded king, and Henry

enjoyed a brief interlude in which he devoted himself anew to his colleges at Eaton and Cambridge,

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