March 30th 1450
Parliament prorogued
With the rising hostility in the South, Parliament was prorogued. Parliament left Westminster to the move to the relative safety of Leicester. Even on the road to Leicester, at Stony Stratford (near where Milton Keynes is) a Yorkshire shipper, flailed the road in front of King Henry stating, “this is how the Duke of York should deal with traitors”. He was arrested and hanged, drawn and quartered in Northampton castle.
The new Parliament (in Leicester) sat from April 29th 1450.
With the parliament prorogued and gone to Leicester the capital suffered from bill stickers with Chrurch doors covered in the complaints of the local people and what ailed the country. So great was the problem the sheriffs were tasked to stop the bill sticking. Bill sticking was a normal part of life in the period, but not to the extent it was currently at. One very famous bill sticker was Martin Luther who nailed his theses also on a church door (In Wittenberg, Germany) later on in 1517.