At Seven Oaks he defeated a royal army and marched on London, but his lawlessness there cost him popular support, and though granted a pardon he was killed after surrendering himself.
Fleeing to France after being accused of murdering a woman in Sussex, in 1450 he settled in Kent posing as a doctor named John Aylmer, though he would later adopt still another name, John Mortimer, in order to associate the rebellion he was leading in Kent with the faction of Richard Duke of York who was then in revolt against Henry VI. At Seven Oaks he defeated a royal army and marched on London, but his lawlessness there cost him popular support, and though granted a pardon he was killed after surrendering himself. FTP name this rebel who appears in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 giving assent to the suggestion that he "first kill all the lawyers".
Fleeing to France after being accused of murdering a woman in Sussex, in 1450 he settled in Kent posing as a doctor named John Aylmer, though he would later adopt still another name, John Mortimer, in order to associate the rebellion he was leading in Kent with the faction of Richard Duke of York who was then in revolt against Henry VI.
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