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The English Peasants' Revolt of 1381 |
 | | The seeds of dissent fell from the tree that was medieval society itself and were watered by the continuous oppression of the poor in towns as well as the countryside by those in power. |
| | The merchant class and the urban industrial workers existed somewhere between the peasants and the nobles; they were free but often survived as poor day-laborers and were frequently at the mercy of the abbots, their landlords. |
| | When he faced the Revolt in 1381, he was not quite fifteen, a boy king with indecisive advisors, no troops, and no money. |
| www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1986-7/milone.htm (4128 words) |
