We wunt be druv
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"We wunt be druv" is the unofficial county motto of Sussex in southern England. It is a Sussex dialect phrase meaning "we will not be driven". The motto asserts that people from the English county of
Village parliament. Postcard posted 1904
Jack Cade's Rebellion
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Jack Cade's Rebellion or Cade's Rebellion was a popular revolt in 1450 against the government of England, which took place in the south-east of the country between the months of April and July. It ste
We wunt be druv
…Wealden peasants rose in revolt: once in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, under the leadership of Wat Tyler and the radical priest John Ball, and again in the 1450 rebellion led by Jack Cade, who was pursued and fatally wounded at Old Heathfield, where he had connections. The phrase "I wunt be druv" is mentioned in E. V. Lucas's 1904 book…
Jack Cade's Rebellion, depicted in a mural of the history of the Old Kent Road (1965) by Adam Kossowski
Lord Saye and Sele brought before Cade on 4 July
1881 drawing by John Gilbert of Cade sitting on London Stone in a performance of Henry VI