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  The Death of Wat Tyler (1381)
Little is known of Wat Tyler with the exception of his fame as the leader of the English Peasant's Revolt of 1381.
Presently Wat Tyler, in the presence of the King, sent for a flagon of water to rinse his mouth, because of the great heat that he was in, and when it was brought the rinse his mouth in a very rude and disgusting fashion before the King's face.
In when the commons saw that their chieftain, Wat Tyler, was dead in such a manner, they fell to the ground there among the wheat, like beaten men, employing the King for mercy for their misdeeds.
www.historyguide.org /ancient/wat_tyler.html   (1145 words)

  
  Wat Tyler - LoveToKnow 1911
On the Loth Tyler seized Canterbury, sacked the palace of Archbishop Sudbury, the chancellor, and beheaded three citizens as "traitors." Next day he led his followers, strengthened by many Kentish recruits, on the road to London, being joined at Maidstone by John Ball, whom the mob had liberated from the archbishop's prison.
At Mile End the king met Wat Tyler; a lengthy and tumultuous conference, during which several persons were slain, took place, in which Tyler demanded the immediate abolition of serfdom and all feudal services, and the removal of all restrictions on freedom of labour and trade, as well as a general amnesty for the insurgents.
With the death of Wat Tyler the rising in London and the home counties quickly subsided, though in East Anglia it flickered a short time longer under the leadership of John Wraw and Geoffrey Litster until suppressed by the energy of Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Wat_Tyler   (728 words)

  
 Wat Tyler's Rebellion
Wat Tyler's rebellion was ignited when a tax collector tried to make a determination that Wat Tyler's daughter was of taxable age (15) by stripping her naked and assaulting her.
Tyler, who was working close by, heard the screams of his wife and daughter, came running and smashed in the tax collector's skull with a hammer.
In a face-to-face meeting with Wat Tyler a short time later, Richard II ordered the Lord Mayor of London to "set hands on him." Tyler was stabbed through the throat with a short sword and, as he lay writhing in agony on the ground after falling off his horse, stabbed through the belly.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Wat Tyler
Walter Tyler, commonly known as Wat Tyler (died June 15, 1381) was the leader of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
Tyler Smiles by Attila the Stockbroker, on the (Australian) CD 668: Neighbour of the Beast, English songwriter ironically compares Tyler's rebellion with the uprising against Margaret Thatcher's poll tax - which significanty contributed to the defeat of the Tory Party after a decade of conservative rule.
Wat Tyler on historyguide.org - a description, from a chronicle of the time, which relates the final meeting between Wat Tyler and King Richard II.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Wat_Tyler   (1033 words)

  
 WAT TYLER
Wat Tyler was the leader of a Peasant uprising, which was named after him (Wat Tyler's Rebellion).
In 1381 Wat Tyler led more than 100 000 peasants in a march to London after the overtaxed people lost patience when the Crown ordered a new head tax.
A young king Richard II agreed to their demands but Wat Tyler was soon killed by the mayor of London and the king's promises put aside.
www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons5_n2/wattyler.html   (86 words)

  
 §3. "Wat Tyler; Joan of Arc;" Southey’s Blank Verse. VIII. Southey. Vol. 11. The Period of the French ...
Wat Tyler; Joan of Arc; Southey’s Blank Verse.
If its actual authorship and circumstances were not known, a good critic might take it for a deliberate and very happy parody of the cruder and more innocent utterances of sentimental republicanism.
Wat and his fellows clothe these utterances in the well-known theatrical lingo of the time; and arrange them in unexceptionable, if slightly uninspired, blank verse.
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 Wat Tyler's rebellion (1381)
On the 13th the Kentish men, under Wat Tyler, entered London, where they massacred some Flemish merchants and razed the palace of the king's uncle, the unpopular John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
During the king's absence, the Kentish rebels in the city forced the surrender of the Tower of London; the chancellor, Archbishop Simon of Sudbury, and the treasurer, Sir Robert Hales, both of whom were held responsible for the poll tax, were beheaded.
Tyler was treacherously cut down in Richard's presence by the enraged mayor of London.
www.wga.hu /tours/gothic/history/wattyler.html   (391 words)

  
 Alan Bush Music Trust - The English Production Of Wat Tyler, June 1974
The Patron of the Society was Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Musick, and the Council of the Society included a number of well-known people, such as John Amis, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Sir Robert Mayer, the composer, Bernard Stevens, and Joan Horrocks, Chairman of the WMA.
John Noble sang Wat Tyler, Valerie Masterson, his wife, Margaret; Richard Angas, sang the role of the priest, John Ball, and Martin Lawrence, Archbishop Sudbury.
John Noble, as Wat Tyler, sang beautifully and one heard all his words (most important, when the words really mean something as they do in this work).
www.alanbushtrust.org.uk /articles/article_rohiggins.asp?room=Articles   (981 words)

  
 The Death of Wat Tyler
Wat Tyler asked that no lord shall have lordship in future, but that land should be divided among all men.
Wat Tyler sent for a jug of water to rinse out his mouth is a very rude manner before the king.
He was told that Wat Tyler had been carried by a group of the commons to the hospital for the poor near St. Bartholomew's and put to bed.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /YALDdeathTyler.htm   (780 words)

  
 Wat Tyler’s Rebellion. How the Nobles of England Were in Great Peril to Have Been Destroyed, and How These Rebels ...
Wat Tyler answered him and said: ‘Friend, appease yourself, thou shalt be well paid or this day be ended.
With those words Wat Tyler cast his eyen on a squire that was there with the king bearing the king’s sword, and Wat Tyler hated greatly the same squire, for the same squire had displeased him before for words between them.
Of the taking of them the king and his lords were glad, and then strake off their heads and Wat Tyler’s also, and they were set on London bridge, and the valiant men’s heads taken down that they had set on the Thursday before.
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 Britannia: Sources of British History
And when he was summoned by the Mayor, by the name of Wat Tighler of Maidstone, he came to the King with great confidence, mounted on a little horse, that the commons might see him.
Presently Wat Tighler, in the presence of the King, sent for a flagon of water to rinse his mouth, because of the great heat that he was in, and when it was brought he rinsed his mouth in a very rude and disgusting fashion before the King's face.
And when the commons saw that their chieftain, Watt Tyler, was dead in such a manner, they fell to the ground there among the wheat, like beaten men, imploring the King for mercy for their misdeeds.
www.britannia.com /history/docs/peasant.html   (1084 words)

  
 WAT TYLER
First heard of Wat Tyler when their single Contemporary Farming Issues came out on Rugger Bugger Records in the late 80's.
They also did a split christmas single with Helen Love (Dampud 33) and also the track 'God Curse You Wicked Satan' for our second xmas E.P. Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart' but the very next day you took it to Record & tape Exchange (Dampud 57) double 7" released 19.12.94.
Wat Tyler are still together and releasing records all around the world.
www.damagedgoods.co.uk /wattyler/index.html   (272 words)

  
 Wat Tyler and the Peasants Revolt
It was during the march one man emerged as their natural leader - Wat Tyler (Walter the Tyler) from Kent.
At this tense and highly charged meeting the Lord Mayor, apparently angered by Wat Tyler’s arrogant attitude to the king and his even more radical demands, drew his dagger and slashed at Tyler.
Badly injured with a knife wound in his neck, Tyler was taken to nearby St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/WatTyler.htm   (1160 words)

  
 BURNING OUR MONEY
Posted by Wat Tyler on May 09, 2005 at 06:35 PM in Politicos
It's just such a shame that that we all have to suffer such horrific damage before we can at last kick them out for another twenty years.
The IMF agrees with the Wat Tyler envelope- £12 billion for starters.
burningourmoney.typepad.com /my_weblog   (2274 words)

  
 Teachers Resources
This could be done through class discussion around question 2 a) to develop ideas for the relaibility column and in preparation for 2 b) and c).
Additional work could be done arising from the conclusion on whether it matters if the Wat Tyler plaque is wrong and whether people seeing the plaque believe it.
Read the section on Wat Tyler and Dartford: Fact or Fiction and answer the following questions.
www.dartfordarchive.org.uk /about/teachers.shtml   (317 words)

  
 Wat Tyler
Walter Tyler, commonly known as Wat Tyler (died 1381) was the leader of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
Historians believe he was probably born in Kent or Essex and may well have served as a soldier in the wars against France.
After taking control of Canterbury, Wat led his peasant army to Blackheath outside London and then went on to invade the city.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wa/Wat_Tyler.html   (112 words)

  
 Wat Tyler
Nothing definite is known of him previous to the outbreak of the peasant revolt in 1381, but Froissart says he had served as a soldier in the French War, and a Kentishman in the retinue of Richard II professed to identify him as a notorious rogue and robber of Kent.
On the 10th Tyler seized Canterbury, sacked the palace of Archbishop Simon of Sudbury, the chancellor, and beheaded three citizens as "traitors." Next day he led his followers, strengthened by many Kentish recruits, on the road to London, being joined at Maidstone by John Ball, whom the mob had liberated from the archbishop's prison.
At Mile End the king met Wat Tyler; a lengthy and tumultuous conference, during which several persons were slain, took place, in which Tyler demanded the immediate abolition of serfdom and all feudal services, and the removal of all restrictions on freedom of labor and trade, as well as a general amnesty for the insurgents.
www.nndb.com /people/919/000101616   (658 words)

  
 Wat Tyler - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Walter Tyler, commonly known as Wat Tyler (died June 15, 1381) was the leader of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
As his name suggests Tyler was a tyler.
The rebels initially forced the government into making concessions, but in the midst of renewed negotiations on June 15, Tyler was killed as a result of a fight with William Walworth, the Mayor of London; the circumstances of this are uncertain.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Wat_Tyler   (200 words)

  
 Wat Tyler - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Tyler, Wat (?-1381), English soldier who led the Peasants' Revolt, also called Tyler's Rebellion, against Richard II's poll tax in June 1381.
Tyler’s Rebellion, often called the Peasants' Revolt, English uprising of 1381 led by an ex-soldier named Wat Tyler.
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 Wat Tyler’s Rebellion (1381) - Reviews on RateItAll
When Wat Tylers daughter was being determined whether she was of taxable age by a local tax collector, he stripped her naked and began to molest her.
Wat Tyler heard her cries from nearby, entered the house and smashed the tax collectors skull in with his hammer.
Wat Tyler did not allow any incidents of looting, one man from his army had hid a silver cup on his person was thrown into the river and humiliated to discourage others from such behaviour.
www.rateitall.com /i-49033-wat-tylers-rebellion-1381.aspx   (442 words)

  
 Tyler, Wat. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After an unsuccessful attempt to interview Richard II, Tyler led the mob into the city, where it plundered and burned many houses (including the Savoy Palace, residence of John of Gaunt) and the Fleet and Newgate prisons.
At the same time, however, or immediately thereafter, Tyler and another group of rebels captured the Tower of London and killed the archbishop of Canterbury and several other officials.
In an exchange of blows with the mayor of London, Tyler was mortally wounded and died soon afterward.
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 Wat Tyler's Rebellion (Peasants' Revolt)
Walter Tyler (Wat Tighler), now known as Wat Tyler, who lived in Maidstone, Essex, was outraged when an overzealous tax collector sought to determine if Tyler's daughter was of taxable age (15).
He records that on June 14 Richard met with Wat Tyler and ordered the Lord Mayor of London to "set hands on him." Tyler was murdered on the spot.
Richard seized the moment and declared, "Wat Tyler was a traitor.
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 Froissart on Wat Tyler's Rebellion (1381)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Then the captains, as John Ball, Jack Straw and Wat Tyler, went throughout London and a twenty thousand with them, and so came to the Savoy in the way to Westminster, which was a goodly house and it pertained to the duke of Lancaster.
With those words Wat Tyler cast his eyen on a squire that was there with the king bearing the king's sword, and Wat Tyler hated greatly the same squire, for the same squire had displeased him before for words between them.
Of the taking of them the king and his lords were glad, and then strake off their heads and Wat Tyler's also, and they were set on London bridge, and the valiant men's heads taken down that they had set on the Thursday before.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/WatTyl.html   (3559 words)

  
 Peasants' revolutions: Wat Tyler
Wat Tyler appeared as leader of the rebels in Kent.
Tyler and Richard II eventually met face-to-face--a confrontation which gave Richard the reputation of a child hero.
The shortage of labour caused by the Black Death led to a doubling of peasants' wages.
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 Wat Tyler - Physik-Lexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wat Tyler wird durch William Walworth, den Bürgermeister von London, unter den Augen von Richard II.
Tyler wurde für seinen Mut in der Schlacht bei Maupertuis und bei einigen Konfrontationen auf See gegen Frankreich und Spanien gelobt.
Doch Tyler provozierte die Gegenseite mit abfälligen Bemerkungen, woraufhin William Walworth, der Bürgermeister von London sein Schwert zog und ihn schwer verletzte.
www.physik-lexikon.de /wiki/index.php?title=Wat_Tyler   (293 words)

  
 Wat Tyler cds, vinyl records and music albums
Sharp-witted and wildly diverse in their sound, Wat Tyler are one of England's true treasures.
Wat Tyler have no sacred cows and don't seem to feel the need to adhere to one music style: they poke fun at whomever they want, however they want, and they are better for it.
Find Wat Tyler cds and Wat Tyler records on Rugger Bugger Records.
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 Amazon.com: "Wat Tyler": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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It is to this, which is known in history as Wat Tyler's Rebellion, that we are now coming.
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