. 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 . Sinic they fetchedmy fair cattle in my fold: when I think of my old wealth, wellnigh 1 weii). Tluis lirenlilh maiiv beggars bold : and therewakeneth iir the world dismay and woe, for as good is deathanon as .so for to toil. Anyhow, fresh rhymes at once spreadthrough the country summoning all to i-ev(jlt and trample ontheir oppressors. John Ball, the doggerel ran, greeteth jouall, and doth for to understand
. 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 . Sinic they fetchedmy fair cattle in my fold: when I think of my old wealth, wellnigh 1 weii). Tluis lirenlilh maiiv beggars bold : and therewakeneth iir the world dismay and woe, for as good is deathanon as .so for to toil. Anyhow, fresh rhymes at once spreadthrough the country summoning all to i-ev(jlt and trample ontheir oppressors. John Ball, the doggerel ran, greeteth jouall, and doth for to understand he hatli rung your bell. Nowright and might, will and skill, ({od spede every dele. Jhedie, in fact, was cast, and the end of the following spring sawthe whole of the ])easantrv of the liome counties in insur-rection, headed by iluir parish priests, and backed by the [ every jiart uf the movement.] 1399] THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION. 331 poorer inh:vl)it;mts in the towns. The original outbreak beganin Kent with the nmrder of a tax-collector by one Walter theTyler, who afterwards marched to (antcrbnrv to release JohnBall trom prison, and then upon I/indon at tlie head of a large. A\( lEM Ui<\\\. OF Till; CAVEMllMl FAJllLV, SlFruLK.(The liiurtiered Chief Justice had ] tlu- Manor in 135J.) rabble, computed at 100,000 men, slaying every lawyer andbin-ning all the manorial records he could tind upon his this movement nuist have been preconcerted ; for as WatTyler, south of the Thames, was marching on lilackheath, northof tlie river the men were marchinir towards Mile End 332 THE niACK DEATH, A2^D AFTEEAVARDS. 11348 too, and the men of Hevtfordsliire towards Highbury. Riotswere going on all over the eonntry—at St. Albans, at BurySt. Edmunds, at Winchester, Cambridge, and Norwich, at ^ork,Beverley, and Scarljorough, in Surrey and Sussex, and even asfar west as Devonshire. Everywhere, too, the rioters seem tohave been ammated by the same
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