England in the age of Wycliffe . d a union with considerable funds. The Bishoptook proceedings in court, but dropped them at the momentof legal victory, preferring to come to some arrangement ofwhich we are ignorant.^ This attitude of resistance was animportant factor in the economic causes which drove thelandlord to manumit his serfs : if they worked unwillingly andrebelliously at their forced labour, the forced labour must soonbe changed for paid service. Opposition to the other acci-dents of the servile condition would similarly bring aboutalteration in the form of tenure. This resistance m
England in the age of Wycliffe . d a union with considerable funds. The Bishoptook proceedings in court, but dropped them at the momentof legal victory, preferring to come to some arrangement ofwhich we are ignorant.^ This attitude of resistance was animportant factor in the economic causes which drove thelandlord to manumit his serfs : if they worked unwillingly andrebelliously at their forced labour, the forced labour must soonbe changed for paid service. Opposition to the other acci-dents of the servile condition would similarly bring aboutalteration in the form of tenure. This resistance may havebeen in some cases fostered, in others crushed by theevents of 81. But in any case the Rising was theresult of the spirit that hastened liberation, for it was causedby the desire to be free, and the will to defy death rather thanbear slavery. Rioting of all sorts frequently recurred both in town andcountry in the years that followed the great upheaval. Powell, 64-5 ; Anc. Iihd., P. R. O. Assize Roll, 774 (7); Rev., 1 I«n(<;ituilr WeHt 0 liOn^tudr 1 w IA • jitmirn^iuitSt^^^iiisrr
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