John Ball

Also known as: Iohn Ball / John Sheepe · Family: Rebels · Role: priest and preacher · First appears: Richard II 19

Life events

c. 1381 · John Ball was arraigned and condemned to be drawn, hanged, and beheaded for treason.(Richard II 19 · 📍 saint Albons)
- With: Richard II Robert Tresilian
- “wherevpon he was arreigned and condemned, to be drawne, hanged, and headed for such notable treasons as he was there conuicted of”
c. 1381 · John Ball was drawn, hanged, and beheaded for disturbing the realm.(Richard II 20 · 📍 saint Albons)
- “This letter he confessed himselfe to haue written, as Thomas Walsingham affirmeth, with manie other things which he had doone and committed, to the disquieting of the realme, for the which he was drawne, hanged, and beheaded at saint Albons, the fiftéenth of Iulie, being monday, in this fifth yeare of king Richards reigne.”

enemies with Robert Tresilian “Thither was brought also to the king from Couentrie, Iohn Ball preest, whom the citizens of Couentrie had taken, and now here at saint Albons they presented him to the kings presence, wherevpon he was arreigned and condemned, to be drawne, hanged, and headed for such notable treasons as he was there conuicted of.”
enemies with Richard II (John Ball is brought before and condemned by the king's authority.) “Thither was brought also to the king from Couentrie, Iohn Ball preest, whom the citizens of Couentrie had taken, and now here at saint Albons they presented him to the kings presence, wherevpon he was arreigned and condemned”

with John Nameless (John Ball wrote and addressed the seditious letter to John Nameless.) “IOHN Scheepe S. Marie preest of Yorke, and now of Colchester, greeteth well Iohn namelesse, and Iohn the Miller, and Iohn Carter, & biddeth them that they beware of guile in Bourrough, & stand togither in Gods name”
with John the Miller (John Ball wrote and addressed the seditious letter to John the Miller.) “IOHN Scheepe S. Marie preest of Yorke, and now of Colchester, greeteth well Iohn namelesse, and Iohn the Miller, and Iohn Carter, & biddeth them that they beware of guile in Bourrough, & stand togither in Gods name”
with John Carter (John Ball wrote and addressed the seditious letter to John Carter.) “IOHN Scheepe S. Marie preest of Yorke, and now of Colchester, greeteth well Iohn namelesse, and Iohn the Miller, and Iohn Carter, & biddeth them that they beware of guile in Bourrough, & stand togither in Gods name”
enemies with Simon de Sudbury “When he had preached and set foorth such kind of doctrine, and other the like fond and foolish toies vnto the people, they extolled him to the starres, affirming that he ought to be archbishop and lord chancellour, where he that then enioied that roome, meaning sir Simon de Sudburie that then was aliue, was a traitor to the king and realme and worthie to lose his head, wheresoeuer he might be apprehended.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.