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During the Peasants’ Revolt, a large mob of English peasants led by WatTyler marches into London and begins burning and looting the city.Several government buildings were destroyed, prisoners were released,and a judge was beheaded along with several dozen other leadingcitizens.The Peasants’ Revolt had its origins in a severe manifestation ofbubonic plague in the late 1340s, which killed nearly a third of thepopulation of England. The scarcity of labor brought on by the BlackDeath led to higher wages and a more mobile peasantry. Parliament,however, resisted these changes to its traditional feudal system andpassed laws to hold down wages while encouraging landlords to reasserttheir ancient manorial rights. In 1380, peasant discontent reached abreaking point when Parliament restricted voting rights through anincrease of the poll tax, and the Peasants’ Revolt began.In Kent, a county in southeast England, the rebels chose Wat Tyler astheir leader, and he led his growing “armyö toward London, capturing thetowns of Maidstone, Rochester, and Canterbury along the way. After hewas denied a meeting with King Richard II, he led the rebels into Londonon June 13, 1381, burning and plundering the city. The next day, the14-year-old king met with peasant leaders at Mile End and agreed totheir demands to abolish serfdom and restrictions on the marketplace.However, fighting continued elsewhere at the same time, and Tyler led apeasant force against the Tower of London, capturing the fortress andexecuting the archbishop of Canterbury.On June 15, the king met Tyler at Smithfield, and Tyler presented newdemands, including one calling for the abolishment of church property.During the meeting, the mayor of London, angered at Tyler’s arrogance inthe presence of the king, lunged at the rebel leader with a sword,fatally wounding him. As Tyler lay dying on the ground, Richard managedto keep the peasant mob calm until the mayor returned with armed troops.Hundreds of rebels were executed and the rest dispersed. During the nextfew days, the Peasant Revolt was put down with severity all acrossEngland, and Richard revoked all the concessions he had made to thepeasants at Mile End. For several weeks, Wat Tyler’s head was displayedon a pole in a London field.
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