died at his castle of Caistor, in Norfolk, in 1460, at the age of 81 years.
During the insurrection of Jack Cade, in 1450, Sir John Fastolfe furnished his place in Southwark with the old soldiers of Normandy, and habiliments of war, to defend himself against the rebels; but having sent an emissary to them at Blackheath, the man was taken prisoner, and narrowly escaped execution as a spy. They brought him however with them into Southwark, and sent him to Sir John, whom he advised to put away all his habiliments of war and the old soldiers; and so he did, and went himself to the Tower with all his household. He was, however, in danger from both parties, for Jack Cade would have burned his house, and he was likely to be impeached for treason for retiring to the Tower, instead of resisting and attacking the rebels, which probably he had not force enough to attempt, they having entire possession of the borough.[1]
Sir John Fastolfe died possessed of one capital messuage, two water-mills, four messuages called "Berehouses," seven gardens, twenty messuages called "Fretrenters," twenty-two messuages called "Smale-renters;" two messuages, called "Crouch-houses," and one messuage called "Herteshorn," in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark; and one messuage in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen (now part of St. Saviour's), called "The Boreshead."[2]
In the reign of King Edward VI., Fastolf Place belonged to Sir Thomas Cockaigne, of Ashborne, Derbyshire, who granted a lease of it, with the gardens, wharf,
