. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . s. WycliUe has sometimes been held respon-sible for the great rising of 13iSl, called the Peasant there are other causes t|uite sufficient to account for is sufficient to bear in mind the great strain resulting fromthe sudden and enormous rise in wages and prices consecpienton the Black Death on the one hand, and the increasingstringency of the Statutes of Labourers which strove to foi-ce
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . s. WycliUe has sometimes been held respon-sible for the great rising of 13iSl, called the Peasant there are other causes t|uite sufficient to account for is sufficient to bear in mind the great strain resulting fromthe sudden and enormous rise in wages and prices consecpienton the Black Death on the one hand, and the increasingstringency of the Statutes of Labourers which strove to foi-ceback this irresistible rise on the other hand. As in all revolu-tiiius, many other intliiences co-oixrated. The disoraanisinoand demoralising influence of the Inng war, the grievances oftownsiiKiii against their feudal lords, and of i-i-aftsmen againstoppressive guilds, thr cii^ iiliii inn dl flnrtrines such as those THE POLITICAL 209 iittribiited to John Ball, and of watchwoixls borrowed from Piers Plowman, must all be taken into account. In Kent,where, according to legal theory, there was no villeinage, therising was jjolitical rather than social. It found its pretext in. TOJIB or ) UI., WESTMIXSTEB ABBBY. the hated novelty of ; but the poll-tax of 1381{p. 330) must be regarded rather as the signal than the motivecause of the rising. The remarkable features about it areits almost universal range from Kent to Lancashire, fromNorfolk to Devon; its extraordinary evidence of organisationand concert: the panic of the well-to-do classes, and the58 Advisers. 21U THE BLACK DEATH, AND AFTEB]VAIir>S. (1848 1399 precocious wisdom and courage of the Vduiij; king. WhenWalworth, the mayor of London, struck ilown Wat Tyler atSniithtield, Kichard II., a boy of fifteen, ste])}>ed forward tovvy, I will be your leader, and induced them to return homeby charters of manumission, sudi as the day before at Mile Endhe had promised to the villeins of the eastern cou
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