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TREASURER

in Jack Straw — Anonymous

Metadata

PlayJack Straw
AuthorAnonymous
Year (catalogued)1593
First performance1591
Decade1590s
GenreHistory
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyUnknown
Speech prefix(es)Lord Treaſorer. | Treaſorer.
Words238
Characters1253
Typicality0.33 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA13062
BritDrama no.855
ClusterCluster 3 — Citizens, tradesfolk & neighbors

Important excerpts

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Full speech

And yet Lord Archbishop your Grace does know, That since the latest time of Parliament, Wherein this task was granted to the King, By general consent of either house, To help his wars which he intends to France, For wreak and joust recovery of his right, How slow their payment is in every place, That better a King not to command at all, Than be beholding to ungrateful minds. My friend what pour have they assembled in the field. My Lord if so you please take my advise herein, That speaks in love and duty to your grace: I shall in every matter privilege your Majesty and all your Lordly train. I mean against your Manor of Greenwich town, And so amid the stream may hover safe, Mean while they send some few and chosen men, To give your Grace to understand their minds, And thus my Lord I have adventured, To show your Majesty my mind herein. IT is good to make provision, for peradventure we shall lack victuals and we lie in camp on Black Heath long. And in faith as long as this Goose lasts wele not starve: And as many good fellows as will come to the eating of her, come and welcome. For in faith I came lightly by her, And lightly come lightly gone, We Captains are Lords within our selves, And if the world hold out we shall be Kings shortly.

Plot summary

Plot — Jack Straw
MHENKING is gathering taxes to finance war in France. After a EARN@OM@Gfr attempts an intimate physical examination of JaeRMStawSMdaughter to establish whether or HOMISHEMISNSIEMEnSughtoNbeMliazble forltaxatiomjastraw loses his temper and kills him. ParSOHMBAll speaks out against social abuses and inequality, inciting the men of Kent to rise in rebellion under Straw and MW&@HllTyi@F; they are joined by men of Essex, and send their demands to the King through Sir J@HBMIMG@EHGh, holding his family hostage. The King agrees to meet them at Greenwich, but breaks the appointment when he sees their disorderly conduct. The rebels advance on London, freeing prisoners, burning legal documents, despoiling their fellow countrymen, and murdering immigrants who cannot speak English properly. The King makes a second attempt to parley, meets the rebels at Smithfield, and hears their grievances. The issue of a general pardon induces the Essex men to go home, but the Kentish rebels remain in arms under Tyler and Straw. At the third encounter with the King, Straw demands a courtier’s sword, and the BOFaIMA¥ar of London stabs him. The rebellion is put down, but the King is reluctant to order mass executions; only the ringleaders, Tyler and Ball, are to die. The Lord Mayor is rewarded with a knighthood.