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The Chronicles of Froissart (Wat Tyler’s Rebellion), by Jean Froissart

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Jun 16, 2021 • 26m

Led by Wat Tyler in 1381, great troops of villagers and rustics marched on London - laid siege to the Tower – sacked the apartments of the King and murdered his ministers. Froissart gives first-hand information of this rebellion. (Volume 35, Harvard Classics)

Wat Tyler's Rebellion suppressed June 15, 1381.

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