Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (page xi)
- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE (page xiii)
- PREFACE (page xv)
- INTRODUCTION (page 1)
- NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS (page 32)
- THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE REVOLT (page 36)
- LIST OF AUTHORITIES (page 45)
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PART I: The Background to the Peasants' Revolt
- 1 The Character of the English according to John Trevisa (page 53)
- 2 The Lay Population of English Counties and Towns according to the Poll Tax Returns of 1377 and 1381 (page 54)
- 3 The Clerical Population of English Dioceses according to the Poll Tax Returns of 1377 and 1381 (page 58)
- 4 The Black Death of 1348-9 according to Henry Knighton (page 59)
- 5 The Statute of Labourers, 135I (page 63)
- 6 The Enforcement of the Statute of Labourers: (page 69)
- 7 Commons' Petition against Vagrants, 1376 (page 72)
- 8 Peasant Discontents and Resistance before 1381: (page 75)
- 9 Political Protest in the Good Parliament of 1376 (page 83)
- 10 Poem on the Death of Edward III (page 88)
- 11 A Disastrous Start to a New Reign, 1377: according to the Vita Ricardi II (page 91)
- 12 Desertion from the English Army, 1380 (page 94)
- 13 Proposals to protect Shipping at London, 1380 (page 95)
- 14 John Gower foresees the Peasants' Revolt (page 97)
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PART II: The Three Poll Taxes and the Outbreak of Revolt
- 15 The Grant of the First Poll Tax, 1377: (page 103)
- 16 The Grant of the Second Poll Tax, 1379: according to the Anonimalle Chronicle (page 105)
- 17 The Northampton Parliament of 1380 and the Grant of the Third Poll Tax: according to the Rolls of Parliament (page 111)
- 18 Appointment of Commissioners to enforce payment of the Third Poll Tax, March 1381 (page 119)
- 19 The Outbreak of the Revolt according to the Anonimalle Chronicle (page 123)
- 20 The Outbreak of the Revolt according to Thomas Walsingham (page 131)
- 21 The Outbreak of the Revolt according to Henry Knighton (page 135)
- 22 The Outbreak of the Revolt according to Froissart (page 137)
- 23 The Rebels in Canterbury according to Jurors' Presentments (page 145)
- 24 The Indictment of two Essex rebels (page 148)
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PART III: The Rebels in London, 13-15 June 1381
- 25 The Rebels in London according to the Anonimalle Chronicle (page 155)
- 26 The Rebels in London according to Thomas Walsingham (page 168)
- 27 The Rebels in London according to Henry Knighton (page 181)
- 28 The Rebels in London according to Froissart (page 187)
- 29 The Peasants' Revolt according to the 'monk of Westminster' (page 199)
- 30 The Peasants' Revolt according to the Continuator of the Eulogium Historiarum (page 204)
- 31 The Peasants' Revolt according to City of London Letter Book H (page 208)
- 32 The Treachery of London Aldermen according to the London Sheriffs' Inquisitions: (page 212)
- 33 The Indictment of Walter atte Keye, Brewer, of Wood Street, London (page 226)
- 34 Royal Letters of Pardon to Paul Salesbury of London (page 228)
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PART IV: The Rising in the Eastern Counties
- 35 The Risings in the Eastern Counties according to the Anonimalle Chronicle (page 235)
- 36 The Risings in the Eastern Counties according to Henry Knighton (page 237)
- 37 The Rising in Cambridge according to the Rolls of Parliament (page 239)
- 38 John Wrawe and the Burgesses of Bury St Edmunds according to Thomas Walsingham (page 243)
- 39 The Depositions of John Wrawe (page 248)
- 40 Two Suffolk Rebels and the 'Great Society' (page 254)
- 41 The Revolt in Norfolk according to Thomas Walsingham (page 256)
- 42 The Death of Sir Robert Salle according to Froissart (page 261)
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PART V: Elsewhere in England
- 43 The Rebels at St Albans according to Thomas Walsingham (page 269)
- 44 Panic in Leicester according to Henry Knighton (page 277)
- 45 The Bridgwater Rising: (page 279)
- 46 The Riots at York: (page 284)
- 47 The Riots at Scarborough (page 289)
- 48 The Riots at Beverley (page 294)
- 49 Rising of the Villeins of the Abbot of Chester (page 297)
- 50 Rising of the Tenants of the Priory of Worcester (page 299)
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PART VI: Suppression and Survival
- 51 'The Ax was Scharp' (page 305)
- 52 The Suppression of the Revolt according to the Anonimalle Chronicle (page 305)
- 53 The Suppression of the Revolt according to Thomas Walsingham (page 306)
- 54 The Suppression of the Revolt according to Henry Knighton (page 313)
- 55 The Suppression of the Revolt according to Froissart (page 315)
- 56 Royal Commission to keep the Peace in London, 15 June 1381 (page 317)
- 57 The Trial and Pardon of John Awedyn of Essex (page 319)
- 58 A Tall Story: Oxfordshire Rebels as French Agents (page 321)
- 59 A New Conspiracy in Kent, September 1381: John Cote's Confession (page 322)
- 60 Post-mortem and Pardon: the Westminster Parliament of November-December 1381 (page 325)
- 61 The Persistence of Revolt: (page 333)
- 62 The Complaints and Requests of the Commons of Kent, 1450 (page 336)
- 63 The Disappearance of English Villeinage: (page 342)
- 64 The Twelve Articles of Memmingen, 1525 (page 346)
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PART VII: Interpretations of the Peasants' Revolt
- 65 A 'Warnying to Be Ware' (page 357)
- 66 'Tax Has Tenet Us Alle' (page 358)
- 67 The Causes of the Revolt according to Sir Michael de la Pole, 1383 (page 362)
- 68 The Causes of the Revolt according to Thomas Walsingham: Jack Straw's Confession (page 363)
- 69 The Causes of the Revolt according to Froissart (page 369)
- 70 The Significance of John Ball: (page 372)
- 71 The Literature of Protest: (page 379)
- 72 Geoffrey Chaucer and the Peasants' Revolt (page 386)
- 73 John Gower and the Peasants' Revolt (page 387)
- 74 The Life and Death of Jacke Strawe, 1593 (page 389)
- 75 Edmund Burke and the Peasants' Revolt (page 392)
- 76 Thomas Paine and the Peasants' Revolt (page 394)
- 77 Robert Southey's Wat Tyler (page 396)
- 78 Engels on the Peasant Risings of the Middle Ages (page 399)
- 79 William Morris's Dream of John Ball (page 403)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 405)
- INDEX (page 415)