Do or die
Священник из Спиталфилдс описывает погром устроенный в канун Майского дня подмастериями Лондона – худший погром иностранцев, случившийся в период правления Тюдоров, в котором участвовали около 1 000 человек. Подавляющее большинство погромщиков было казнено 15 мая, причем приговор они получили не за погром, а за государственную измену.
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Типа, местная трудовая молодёжь взбунтовалась против гастрбайтеров что ли?
"According to the chronicler Edward Hall (c. 1498–1547), a fortnight before the riot an inflammatory xenophobic speech was made on Easter Tuesday by a Dr. Bell at St. Paul's Cross at the instigation of John Lincoln, a broker. Bell called on all "Englishmen to cherish and defend themselves, and to hurt and grieve aliens for the common weal". Over the proceeding two weeks there were sporadic attacks on foreigners and rumours abounded "that on May Day next the city would rebel and slay all aliens".
The mayor and aldermen, afraid of any possible disturbances, announced on 8.30pm 30 April that there would be a 9.00pm curfew that night. John Mundy, a local alderman, travelling through Cheapside on his way home that night, saw a group of young men after the curfew. Mundy ordered the men to remove themselves from the streets to which one replied: "Why?" Mundy replied: "Thou shalt know" and grabbed his arm to arrest him. The man's friends defended him and Mundy fled "in great danger".
Within a few hours approximately a thousand young male apprentices had congregated in Cheapside. The mob freed several prisoners who were locked up for attacking foreigners and proceeded to St Martin le Grand, a privileged liberty north of St Paul's Cathedral where numerous foreigners lived. Here they were met by the under-sheriff of London, Thomas More, who attempted vainly to persuade them to return to their homes. However as soon as More had calmed them the inhabitants of St Martin started to throw stones, bricks, bats and boiling water from their windows which also fell on an official who screamed: "Down with them!".