Jack Straw (rebel leader)

[3] Walsingham also states that Straw and his followers murdered both notable local figures in Bury and, after reaching the capital, several of its Flemish residents, an accusation also made by Froissart.

Froissart states that after Wat Tyler's death at Smithfield, Straw (along with John Ball) was found "in an old house hidden, thinking to have stolen away", and beheaded.

Jack Straw and the other rebel leaders are introduced in John Gower's Vox Clamantis Book I Chapter XI.

Gibb, a good whelp of that litter, doth help mad Coll more mischief to do, And Will he does vow, the time is come now, he'll join in their company too.

Davie complains, whiles Grigg gets the gains, and Hobb with them does partake, Lorkin aloud in the midst of the crowd conceiveth as deep is his stake.

In the modern era, the rather confused reporting of events was briefly satirised in Sellar and Yeatman's parody of Edwardian-era popular history, 1066 and All That, stating that the peasants revolted "in several reigns under such memorable leaders as Black Kat, Straw Hat, John Bull and What Tyler?