Wat Tyler: Dramatic Poem in Three Acts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The populace, amounting to one hundred thousand men, assembled on Blackheath, under their leaders, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw. They sent a message to the King, (who had taken shelter in the Tower) and de sired a conference with him. Richard sailed down the Thames, in a barge, for that purpose but, on approach ing the shore. He was alarmed at the appearance of the people, and he returned to his fortress. The people in the meantime, had broken into the city of London; where they cut off the heads of those whom they dis liked, and committed other acts of a similar description. To quiet them, the King promised that their grievances should be redressed 5 but, as it afterwards proved, these promises were never intended to be performed.

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