The rebels take London
1381 · Event
London's own poor open the bridge and the gates, and the rebels burn the Savoy Palace of the hated John of Gaunt — pointedly destroying its treasures rather than looting them ('we be not thieves and robbers') — along with the lawyers' rolls at the Temple. The government of England is now a fourteen-year-old in the Tower.
On these timelines: The Peasants' Revolt, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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