The British nation a history / by George MWrong . John Wycliffe (?13-24 ?-1384). 190 THE BRITISH XATIOX. Peasants THiiEsiiixt;, abolt 1340. came to be known as the Lollards. It is never easy totrace the influence and the numbers of the adherents of new opinions, but Lol-lard teaching was noobscure factor in thegreat peasant storm prepar-ing in so many waysfinally burst, owing toa new and oppressivetax. An invasion ofFrance was plannediiL1380, and to meet the heavy cost a sj)ecial poll-t_ax waslevied. Each township was to pay a shilling^ for everyThe immediate P^^son within it more
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . John Wycliffe (?13-24 ?-1384). 190 THE BRITISH XATIOX. Peasants THiiEsiiixt;, abolt 1340. came to be known as the Lollards. It is never easy totrace the influence and the numbers of the adherents of new opinions, but Lol-lard teaching was noobscure factor in thegreat peasant storm prepar-ing in so many waysfinally burst, owing toa new and oppressivetax. An invasion ofFrance was plannediiL1380, and to meet the heavy cost a sj)ecial poll-t_ax waslevied. Each township was to pay a shilling^ for everyThe immediate P^^son within it more than fifteen years ofcause of tlic agc, and in present-day values this meant a°* tax of fully twelve shillings per head. The first results from the tax were disappointing, and early in3381 collectors went about exact-ing it more rigorously. Therewere angry disputes as to theages of children said to be lial)kto the tax, which, to the peasantwho might have to pay for him-self, his wife, and several otiiersin his family, was a burden al-most intolerable. Some of the in-habitants of towns and villages
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