John Laige
Role: sergeant at arms · First appears: Book 2, Chapter 4, part 2/2
In Book 2, Chapter 4, John Laige, a sergeant at arms, was among those beheaded when Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball entered by force. His head was displayed on a long pike with those of Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, John Ball, and Simon, then placed on London Bridge as if the victims were traitors.
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Life events
- John Laige was beheaded.(Book 2, Chapter 4, part 2/2)
- “and also a sergeant at arms of the name of John Laige.”
- The four victims’ heads were displayed on London Bridge as if they were traitors.(Book 2, Chapter 4, part 2/2 · 📍 London Bridge)
- With: Wat Tyler Jack Straw John Ball Simon
- “They fixed these four heads on long pikes, and had them carried before them through the streets of London: when they had sufficiently played with them, they placed them on London Bridge, as if they had been traitors to their king and country.”
Book 2, Chapter 4, part 2/2
- with Wat Tyler (Wat Tyler was among the rebels who killed John Laige.) “Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball, with upward of four hundred, rushed in by force, and, running from chamber to chamber, found the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose name was Simon, a valiant and wise man, and chancellor of England, who had but just celebrated mass before the king: he was seized by these rascals, and beheaded. The Prior of St. John’s suffered the same fate; and likewise a Franciscan friar, a doctor of physic, who was attached to the Duke of Lancaster, out of spite to his master; and also a sergeant at arms of the name of John Laige.”
- with Jack Straw (Jack Straw was among the rebels who killed John Laige.) “Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball, with upward of four hundred, rushed in by force, and, running from chamber to chamber, found the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose name was Simon, a valiant and wise man, and chancellor of England, who had but just celebrated mass before the king: he was seized by these rascals, and beheaded. The Prior of St. John’s suffered the same fate; and likewise a Franciscan friar, a doctor of physic, who was attached to the Duke of Lancaster, out of spite to his master; and also a sergeant at arms of the name of John Laige.”
- with John Ball (John Ball was among the rebels who killed John Laige.) “Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and John Ball, with upward of four hundred, rushed in by force, and, running from chamber to chamber, found the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose name was Simon, a valiant and wise man, and chancellor of England, who had but just celebrated mass before the king: he was seized by these rascals, and beheaded. The Prior of St. John’s suffered the same fate; and likewise a Franciscan friar, a doctor of physic, who was attached to the Duke of Lancaster, out of spite to his master; and also a sergeant at arms of the name of John Laige.”
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