Shrewsbury was won, and the rising did not end. Another army gathered in the north. That rising ends not in a battle but in a promise. The king’s son John offered terms, dispersed the army and took its leaders.
Around the same time the king fell ill. This is the man who had said long ago that he would go to the Holy Land. The journey was put off year after year, and now he could not walk.
One worry stayed with the king to the end. What would become of this country when he died. His eldest son was still going down to Eastcheap.