Note 555 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE
Reading edition
Gairdner, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII., vol. xii., Part I., 70, 1537. Examination of R. Leedes: “The rebels ... were half inclined to go home. But Ralph Green ... encouraged them to go forward, saying, 'God’s blood, sirs, what will ye now do? Shall we go home and keep sheep? Nay, by God's body, yet had I rather be hanged,'" and ibid.: “The said Trotter says the meaning of the plough borne in the banner was the encouraging of the husbandman.”