Froissart: "All this season the earl of Buckingham [i.e. Thomas of Woodstock] was in Wales, for there he had fair heritages by reason of his wife, who was daughter to the earl of Northumberland and Hereford; but the voice was all through London how he was among these people. And some said certainly how they had seen him there among them; and all was because there was one Thomas in their company, a man of the county of Cambridge, that was very like the earl."
It is worth noting that there was a rumor that the Duke of Gloucester took part in this rebellion. Later on, Gloucester did seek to get the people on his side against the king and perhaps the king believed the rumor of Gloucester's part in the rebellion and later held it against him, among Gloucester's other offenses.
A side note: there is a theory that Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale is really about the murder of Gloucester--and that the name of the murderer was Nicholas Colfox. See here for a discussion of this theory.
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