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Evil May Day
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Evil May Day or Ill May Day is the name of a xenophobic riot which took place on 1 May 1517 as a protest against foreigners (called "strangers"[1]) living in London. Apprentices attacked foreign residents ranging from "Flemish cobblers" to "French royal courtiers".[2] Some of the rioters were later hanged,[3] although King Henry VIII granted a pardon for the remainder following public pleadings from his wife Catherine of Aragon.[4]
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Joneswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain". www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ John D. Bareham Tudor History, The Mastermind Quiz Book (Editor: Richard Morgale)
- ^ Sybil M. Jack, ‘Wolsey, Thomas (1470/71–1530)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2012.
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