'The Lord Mayor arresting a suspicious Twelfth-Night Character', c1860, (c1860). Artist: John Leech.

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'The Lord Mayor arresting a suspicious Twelfth-Night Character', c1860, (c1860). John Oldcastle (died 1417) the head of a Lollard conspiracy that planned to seize the King and his brothers during a Twelfth-night mumming at Eltham. Oldcastle was to be Regent, the king, nobility and clergy placed under restraint and the abbeys dissolved. When the Lollards assembled in St Giles's Fields on 10th January 1414, the kings forces arrested the conspirators. From The Comic History of England, Volume I, by Gilbert A A'Beckett. [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London]

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