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I-lis secular political office fatally identified And so blddeth Johan Trewman and alle his felawes him with the hated Poll Tax. Robert Hales, Knight, Royal Treasurer, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John and known as Hob the Rob. J DRAMATIS PERSONAE '2» //// use4.-Q} ? My %‘ei Q \-\»=<sro- ~::,,~&’ -SQ.-__, <-, 6 if‘ as - i -I 3‘-"1? H4 John Legge, Royal Sergeant-at-Arms, generally supposed to have bribed himself a fat piece of tax-farming. Robert Tresillian, Knight, Chief Justice, fixed in his judicial savagery by a Cornish upbringing and an Oxford education. William Courtenay, a Devon man born at Powderham Castle, Sudbury’s successor as Archbishop but // who resigned the Chancellorship in revulsion from the cynical \. royal revocation of promises made on oath to villein \/ petitioners. He insisted on a two day stay of execution whilst 1 /Kfj Lg? vainly labouring to bring John Ball’s soul to a state of grace. lg-4-...._,__~*K§;"'_;’4'_...../%-W.... /__,,__;- ,-I-' William Walworth, Mayor of London, a Darlington fish- i I. 4-I""' monger who shed skins as rack-renter and .4-i property tycoon to emerge as a respectable and titled city ' FI-"- financier. His fatal dagger is displayed at Fishmongers Hall. "i'*' ‘F..'-'5' The reputation of this wily, violent man is ameliorated by a single act of environmental conservation—--he refused planning permission to horizontal inn bush-poles projecting more than seven feet. E Wat Tyler (Walter the Tiler). His past is obscure, his history eight brief days, his apocrypha memorable-a passionate income-tax inspector, insisting that a well-developed MI‘ girl was 15 and liable to Poll Tax, pressed his examination too "'IIlIl' hotly and had his skull shattered by her father's tiling hammer. John Ball, a hedge-priest without a parish first heard of in John Wyclif, a Yorkshire guru."-' Like most successful York in 1361 and, for the rest of his life, hounded revolutionaries he was humourless, argumenta- by civil and ecclesiastical authority as he roamed the land tive, self-opinionated and wily. His best-circulator, an English doggedly preaching that Christ's dominant message had been translation of the Bible, was as explosive as Marx’s Das economic and social equality. To bring to pass his vision of a Kapital. Itinerant graduates of his teach-ins agitated for strict Great Society he may have established an underground chain application of the least comfortable of Christ's sociological of freedom-fighter cells. A circular found on a rebel reads pronouncements, abolition of magic mumbo-jumbo such as Jon Balle gretyth you wel alle and dothe yowe to divine trans-substantiation and the de-nationalisation of the understande he hath rungen youre belle. Nowe ryght and Chuch and consequent salutory impoverishment of myght, wylle and skylle. God spede every ydele. Nowe is ecclesiastical professionals. He died in his fifties and a lapsed tyme. Lady helpe to Jhesu this sone, and thi sone to hisfader trendy who had got on, the Bishop of Lincoln, had his bones to make a gode ende in the name ofthe Trinite dug up, cremated and tossed into the stream of his last parish, Lutterworth. MEDIA COMMENTATORS, CONJECTURAL SPECULATORS AND POP PROPHETS. _ 1 ,..\\__ __‘ ,1‘; ' . __. :_;.."'é_?.l_*".. ' w=*E\.... .- J Thomas Walsingham, a St. Albans monk, as. Establishment man. ‘‘"1-2 .-i‘ --fv I NOISES OFF-STAGE. , - "'--. *s~-»_- Geoffrey Chaucer, pop poet and (had the post been invented) Lau_re__ate. Although he was 41 in 1381 he John ofGaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the King's uncle, a mentioned the rebellion with cynical brevity- property hypermagnate who was popularly identified with military disaster abroad and greedy COI'l‘\lpllOI‘l Certes Jack Straw and his meinie at home. During the crucial week he hung about the Scots Ne maden never shoutes halfso shrille border. ‘ Whan that they wolden any Fleming kille. William Langland, a Cleobury Mortimer poet and hard-liner, _ who migrated from the Malvern district to London. Hts moral diatribe, Piers Plowman, strips the fancy dress from the Middle Ages. ° The poorest folk are our neighbours—the prisoners in dungeons and the poor tn their hovels, overburdened with chtldren and rack-rented by landlords . men who go hungry and thirsty and strive to hide it, ashamed to beg or MAY 25 Thomas Brampton, Poll Tax investigator, his staff tell their neighbours oftheir need. and a nominal military escort _were set upon by Fobbing, Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham tax-defaulters, ' But whilst hunger was their master there would none of them who murdered three clerks and took to the Essex woods. chide, MAY 26 John Legge, Royal Sergeant-at-Arms and tax- Nottstrive against the Statute however sternly he looked. farmer, began to crop Kent. , But I warn you, workmen, win money whilst ye may, JUNE 2 Robert Bealknap, a trailbaston cofnmissioner, For hunger hitherward hasteth himfast retreated to London and declared Essex unsafe for Andshall awake with the water-floods to chastise the tax-collectors. Wasteful! JUNE 3 Simon de Burley claimed a highly thought-of Gravesend townsman as his runaway serf and t dragged off his property to Rochester Castle. A flying-picket led by Abel Ker crossed the Thames Estuary from Dartford If you find your name here, you may have a distant relative and recruited seasoned Essex activists to stiffen the Kent who didn’t stay at home. resistance. JUNE 5 Leaving a skeleton patrol to keep an eye on French 10 raiders, a horde of North Kent peasants, fishermen and (George) Donnesby, a Great Society courier in Lincolnshire, townsmen moved eastwards towards the Medway where on (hanged); John Starling, an Essex fuller turned public JUNE 6 Sir John Newenton surrendered Rochester Castle. executioner who, having been absolved by Archbishop Sudbury, made‘ a seven stroke hash of the job, (hanged); Z5- William Gildeborne who farmed 600 acres and owned 72 beasts \___t. in Fobbing, (hanged); John Brux who farmed 200 acres at aka Caxton, (hanged); William Gore of West Wycombe; John '.,_ -2. Covehurst who had land in three parishes near Lamberhurst, , “»ti%"i*'“§\ (hanged); Thomas Fletcher, arrowmaker and small-holder of M -»". 1-,1,*=:;‘\¢.3\_§*]E\ / Bergholt, (hanged); Henry Baker, the Tendring bailiff; Adam -.-“tr 5"" .. Clymme, Great Society courier in the Ely area, (hanged); John .... .- s ,, Berwold, a Cottingham rhymer; John Battisford, the Bottisham parson, a John Ball liason-officer; Robert Galoun of ‘ .3‘,-vIt];l Scarborough; Richard Middleton, a Beverley aldermanic as 1" feluder; Thomas Engilby of Bridgewater; Hugh Hervey of C ester. JUNE 7 Turning south to Maidstone, the swelling bands elected Wat Tyler military commander and chief negotiator.
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