main events (PR)

Question 1

Facts about Smithfield

Answer 1

• 15th June 1381
• Wat Tyler met King Richard II
  -there where 60 knights and nobles + Lord Mayor of London William Walworth
• Wat Tyler demanded free fishing
• confiscation of all church lands
  -reiterated the previous demands of the peasants
• Walworth told Tyler to speak to King with respect
• Tyler moved to attack Walworth
• Walworth struck him with a blow across the neck and chest
• a furthering blow mortally wounded Wat

Question 2

Facts about the outbreak of revolt

Answer 2

• 30th May 1381, villagers of Fobbing, Essex got threatened by Thomas de Bampton when refusing to pay Poll Tax
• 100 villagers in all, including those from Corringham got together to drive him and his officers away

Question 3

about when peasants first entered city

Answer 3

• 13th June 1381
• guards opened drawbridge at Southwark, which allowed rebels to pass over London bridge as they were threatened by large mob
• others later that day came from the North under Jack Straw
• lots of looting
• that night peasants became drunk on plundered