Note 556 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE

Ibid., vol. xii., Part I., 687, 1537. Confession of Barnarde Townleye, Clerk: “The beginners of the insurrection in Cumberland were the 4 captains of Penrith; Faith, Poverty, Pity and Charity, as the Vicar of Burgh proclaimed them at each meeting.... Conjectures that the intent was to destroy the gentlemen, that none should pay ingressums to his landlord, and little or no rent or tithe"; also ibid., Examination of Sir Robert Thompson, Vicar of Burgh: “On the Wednesday and Thursday the 4 captains followed examinand in procession with their swords drawn, and examinand said mass, which they called the Captains' mass.”