It was preceded four years earlier by an event known as the "Great Rumour".
It was preceded four years earlier by an event known as the "Great Rumour". John Gower compared this event to an animal stampede in his Vox Clamantis. It finally died out when John Litster was killed by the bishop of Norwich in East Anglia. Among those killed during it were the confessor William Apuldore, the treasurer Sir Robert Hales, and Simon Sudbury. "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" was a famous couplet spoken by John Ball, one of the leaders who protested against the Statute of Labourers. John of Gaunt's palace was destroyed in, FTP, what uprising whose leader was killed by Lord Mayor Walworth at Smithfield, a 1381 revolt which forced Richard II to calm the namesake group.
It was preceded four years earlier by an event known as the "Great Rumour".
{Wat Tyler}’s Rebellion or {Peasant}s Revolt