{"id":26300,"date":"2020-11-19T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26300"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:06:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:06:58","slug":"abingdon-man-ends-up-on-london-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26300","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon man ends up on London Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111901.jpg\" alt=\"William Mandeville\" \/><br \/>\nWilliam Mandeville, of Abingdon, led an early rising of ordinary folk. An account can be read in <em>Chronicles of London Bridge<\/em> by Richard Thomson, available in google books ( <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=n2MuAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA238&amp;lpg=PA238#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=n2MuAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA238&amp;lpg=PA238#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\u00a0<\/a> ). <\/p>\n<p>It is diffuclt from this account to judge the justice of his cause. A rebellious association was formed in Abingdon by William Mandeville, a weaver and bailiff of the town (April 1431) who called himself Jack Sharp, of Wigmore&#8217;s lands in Wales. The object of this rebellion was ostensibly against the priests, for Mandeville confessed when examined, that it was <em>&#8216;intended to make priests&#8217; heads as plenty as sheep&#8217;s heads &#8211; ten for a penny,&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111902.jpg\" alt=\"William Mandeville\" \/><br \/>\nWilliam Mandeville is commemorated in a short street in Abingdon &#8211; off the Oxford Road<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111903.jpg\" alt=\"William Mandeville\" \/><br \/>\nPerhaps fitting for a rebellion that ended in execution, Mandeville Close is a Cul-de-sac. There are half a dozen houses on one side of the road, and a Beech hedge on the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Mandeville, of Abingdon, led an early rising of ordinary folk. An account can be read in Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thomson, available in google books ( https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=n2MuAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA238&amp;lpg=PA238#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\u00a0 ). It is diffuclt from this account to judge the justice of his cause. A rebellious association was formed in Abingdon by William Mandeville, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}