Thomas Farringdon, Abel Ker, and Jack Straw ranked among the leaders of this event, which saw violence break out in Essex and Kent over anger at the Statute of Labourers and a poll tax.
The seizure of Thomas Shardelow's house, with a mass burning of documents and a declaration by Robert Cave, marked its outbreak in Dartford. Robert Belknap was subdued in his attempt to arrest its original inciters, Thomas Baker and his men, who refused Thomas Bampton's attempts at collection. It saw Tower Hill become an execution site as royal officials Robert Hales, John Legge, and Simon Sudbury were beheaded. Thomas Farringdon, Abel Ker, and Jack Straw ranked among the leaders of this event, which saw violence break out in Essex and Kent over anger at the Statute of Labourers and a poll tax. An army under Mayor William Walworth helped put down, FTP, what uprising against Richard II by a bunch of poor people under Wat Tyler?
The seizure of Thomas Shardelow's house, with a mass burning of documents and a declaration by Robert Cave, marked its outbreak in Dartford.
{Peasants’} Revolt (accept “Wat {Tyler}’s Rebellion” until his name is mentioned)