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Lawyers drew up manor rolls, which identified serfs & their obligations to their lords – the source of some of the grievances which fuelled the Revolt.
#JuneMonthOfRevolt #OnThisDay in London rebellious history, 1381: On the Thames shore, at Greenwich King Richard, having agreed a meeting with the Kent rebels here, is scared off by the unruly crowd, and won’t get off his barge to meet them.
The same day, radical preacher John Ball preaches to the massed 1000s on the heath; "When Adam delved & Eve span Where was then the gentleman?" Probably the earliest recorded egalitarian speech in English history.
#JuneMonthOfRevolt #OnThisDay in London rebellious history, 1381: Fleet Prison burned by revolting peasants and London rebels.
#JuneMonthOfRevolt #OnThisDay in London rebellious history, 1595: a riot over the high price of food in the City: part of a month of unrest over food prices.
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#JuneMonthOfRevolt #OnThisDay in London rebellious history, 1381: In the Peasants Revolt, the Temple is trashed & its legal & poll tax records are burned. Many lawyers are targeted by the rebels.
#JuneMonthOfRevolt #OnThisDay in London rebellious history, 1381: The Peasants Revolt’s most festive day ends with the opening & destroying of Newgate prison.
JuneMonthOfRevolt #OnThisDay in London rebellious history, 1381: St John’s Priory, Clerkenwell, London residence of the Lord Treasurer, Robert Hales (prominent in the Poll tax & govt administration), together with the adjoining mansion, are sacked & burned by the Essex rebels.
#OnThisDay in London's anti-war herstory: women's rally against the Boer War, 1900
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#OnThisDay in London's rebel history: Marcus Sarjeant fires blanks at queen, The Mall, 1981.
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