The Peasants Revolt in Suffolk centred on Bury St Edmunds, where rebels under John Wrawe sacked the great Benedictine monastery. The prior, John Cambridge, was dragged from hiding and beheaded, as was Chief Justice John Cavendish — his head was carried through the streets on a pole opposite the prior\'s. The rebels burned the monastery\'s legal records and freed prisoners. The violence at Bury was exceptional even by the standards of the revolt and reflected centuries of resentment against the monastery\'s manorial power over the town and surrounding villages.
Suffolk rebels under John Wrawe: several thousand. Victims: monastic officials, royal justices
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