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encouraged by way of the sermons of the unconventional cleric John Ball, and led through Wat Tyler, a contingent of Kentish rebels complicated on London. They have been met at Blackheath by way of representatives of the royal executive, who unsuccessfully tried to cajole them to come domestic. King Richard II, then elderly 14, retreated to the protection of the Tower of London, yet lots of the royal forces have been in a foreign country or in northern England. On thirteen June, the rebels entered London and, joined by means of many neighborhood townsfolk, attacked the gaols, destroyed the Savoy Palace, set hearth to legislation books and constructions within the Temple, and killed a person linked to the royal executive. day after today, Richard met the rebels at Mile finish and acceded to such a lot in their calls for, together with the abolition of serfdom. in the meantime, rebels entered the Tower of London, killing the Lord Chancellor and the Lord excessive Treasurer, whom they discovered inside.
On 15 June, Richard left town to satisfy with Tyler and the rebels at Smithfield. Violence broke out, and Richard's occasion killed Tyler. Richard defused the annoying scenario lengthy adequate for London's mayor, William Walworth, to assemble a armed forces from town and disperse the insurgent forces. Unrest endured till the intervention of Henry le Despenser, who defeated a insurgent military on the conflict of North Walsham on 25 or 26 June. problems prolonged north to York, Beverley and Scarborough, and as some distance west as Bridgwater in Somerset. Richard mobilised 4,000 infantrymen to revive order. many of the insurgent leaders have been tracked down and completed; by means of November, a minimum of 1,500 rebels were killed

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