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| | Wat Tyler's Rebellion (Peasants' Revolt) |
 | | It was on this date, June 12, 1381, that the Peasants' Revolt or Great Rising of 1381, also known as Wat Tyler's Rebellion, began. |
 | | The 1300s, or what historian Barbara Tuchman calls "The Calamitous 14th Century,"* was theoretically an Age of Chivalry, but in fact a time of superstition, faith, plague, great cathedrals, great poverty, great ignorance, brutal punishment (visited with a vengeance on the peasantry), sexual license and corruption, especially in the Church. |
 | | The next thing the mob did was kill all the lawyers and judges they could find, and release their brother peasants from prison. |
| www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0612almanac.htm (683 words) |
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