The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent was a manifesto issued by

Jack Cade Jack 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 stemmed from local grievances regarding the corruption, maladmi ...

, a Kentish rebel in 1450, before his march on

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. The 'popular grievances' from this manifesto were frequently quoted by the Yorkists during The

Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), known at the time and for more than a century after as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne in the mid-to-late fifteenth century. These wars were fought bet ...

, for propaganda purposes.

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in the original in "Three fifteenth-century chronicles..." by John Stowe 15th century in England Medieval Kent 1450 in Europe {{England-hist-stub