Large portions of England experienced a great rebellion in 1381 known as The Great Rising or the Peasant Revolt. The Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxation brought on by the struggle with France during the Hundred Years War, and volatility within London-Municipal-Authority were a few of the factors that contributed to the insurrection. The engagement of a royal official, John Bampton, in Essex on May 30, 1381, served as the ultimate catalyst for the uprising. His quest to recover outstanding poll taxes in Brentwood resulted in a violent altercation that quickly extended throughout the southeast of the country. Huge swathes of rural society, including numerous local craftspeople and village leaders, rose up in protest, setting fire to court documents and opening the neighbourhood jails. The rebels demanded the dismissal of the top officials of King Richard II, an abolition of servitude and lower taxes. A group of Kentish rebels headed by Wat Tyler and inspired by the radical priest John Ball moved on to London. Delegates of the royal administration met them at Blackheath and made vain attempts to get them to go back home. The majority of the royal armies were either in northern England or overseas when King Richard, who was 14 at the time, fled to refuge in the Tower of London. Upon arriving in London on June 13, the rebels stormed the gaols, demolished the Savoy Palace, torched the Temple buildings and books of law, and executed everybody connected to the royal authority. Richard visited the rebels the next day in Mile End and acceded to the majority of their conditions, including the eradication of serfdom. In the meantime, rebels broke into the Tower of London and killed Robert Hales, the Lord High Treasurer, and Simon Sudbury, the Lord Chancellor, whilst they were inside. Richard departed the city on June 15 in order to meet Tyler and the rebels in Smithfield. When fighting broke out, Tyler was killed by group of Richard. William Walworth, the mayor of London, was able to raise a city militia and disperse the rebel forces after Richard successfully diffused the critical situation. Richard revoked his prior concessions to the rebels and started to restore order in London right away. The uprising had also reached East Anglia, where it stormed Cambridge University and resulted in the deaths of numerous royal officials. Unrest persisted until Henry Despenser intervened and, on June 25 or 26, at the Battle of North Walsham, crushed a rebel army. Troubles spread to York, Beverley, and Scarborough in the north, as well as as far away in Bridgwater in Somerset in the west. 4,000 men were gathered by Richard to reestablish order. By November, at least 1,500 insurgents had died, and the majority of the rebel commanders were found and put to death. Academics have devoted a lot of time to studying the Peasant Revolt. To piece together an account of the rebellion in the late 19th century, historians employed a variety of materials from contemporaneous chroniclers; they were later augmented in the 20th century by studies using court documents and local records! [Information and Image Credit :Peasants Revolt, Wikipedia] [Image : The boy-king Richard II meets the rebels on 14 June 1381, in a miniature from a 1470s copy of Jean Froissart Chronicles] [The Work (Image) is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The Work (Image) is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the life of Author plus 100 years or fewer. The Work (Image) is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1927] [Source Image-URL :: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Froissart,_Chroniques,_154v,_12148_btv1b8438605hf336,_crop.jpg ]
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