Execution of John Ball
1381 · Event
Tried before the king at St Albans, the preacher is hanged, drawn and quartered, unrepentant. The charters of Mile End are revoked — 'villeins ye are, and villeins ye shall remain' — yet the poll tax is never tried again, and within a century villeinage itself has withered. The revolt lost its fortnight and won its argument.
On these timelines: The Peasants' Revolt, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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- The revolt kindles at Brentwood (1381)
- The third poll tax (1380)
- Statute of Labourers (1351)
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