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>>>>>> The reason the king wanted to kill all the lawyers was because the lawyers stood for law and against the tyranny of the crown. The king who said “kill all the lawyers” was the bad guy of the story. <<<<<<

Wrong.

Shakespeare was not in the business of praising lawyers.

In Henry VI, Jack Cade’s imaginary utopia includes free food, free food, no money, and no lawyers.

I had the wrong guy wanting to kill all the lawyers, but the right reason for his wanting to do so.

As we review Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 2, we find at this juncture in the story Jack Cade’s rebellion was picking up steam. Dick, the butcher, was a member of this rebellion. As Dick utters the famous words “first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” he was referring to ways that the rebellion might be successful. They recognized that to succeed, they must get rid of those who knew and enforced a system of laws. They did not want any learned and informed opposition to the rebellion they had planned against the government.