(1517). So called because of the riots made on that day by the
London apprentices, who fell on the French residents. The ringleaders,
with fifteen others, were hanged; and four hundred more of the rioters
were carried to Westminster with halters round their necks, but were
pardoned by “Bluff Harry the King.” The Constable of the Tower
discharged his cannon on the mob assembled in tumult in Cheapside Way.
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