PEASANTS REVOLT

1ST CAUSE

• After black death, many manors were short of workers
• Workers thought they can receive higher wages
• Parliament passed 'statute of labourers (1351)
• Maximum wage, put to prison if they refused
• Poor people stayed poor = angry 😡😡😡😡

2ND CAUSE

• Villeins still cannot move around
• Cannot find better work
• Must remain working w the same lord
• Even though they were promised freedom
• 😡😡😡😡😡😤😤😤😤😤😠😠😠😠 feudal system

3RD CAUSE

• Peasants are sick of 'work service'
• ^ work for free , treated like slaves
• Have to pay 10% of earning to church
• All food given to priest, scared to go to hell
• Famine was going on

4TH CAUSE

• England was at war with france
• Weak government -king richard iI (10)
• Introduced a poll tax to pay for war - 5pounds
• 😡😡😡😡😡
• Uncle john gaunt ran the country

May 1381
A Tax collector came to Essex village to pester taxes & got thrown out

WHAT HAPPENS

• Peasants from kent + essex marched to london
• Leader of peasants - wat tyler from kent
• Destroyed tax registers, burnt buildings
• John ball ( priest ) supported them as well
• They all wanted to negotiate w the king

JUNE 14TH

• King met the rebels
• Richard II gave the peasants everything they wanted
• Some left london, some stayed
• After another meeting in 15th, lord mayor killed wattyler
• John ball was hanged , revolt defeated.

SUMMER OF 1381

• Revolt was over
• Richard did not keep any of his promises
• Leaders in kent and essex killed
• Poll tax withdrawn
• Peasants were forced back into their old way of life

THE END