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At the end of May 1381, the 14-year-old Ruler of England acquired reason to be fearful: the plague acquired went back, the royal coffers were vacant and a draconian poll duty was being generally evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, popular mother, felt secure in his God-given to reign. Inside a fortnight the unthinkable took place: a vast push of common people invaded London, led with a previous soldier, Walter Tyler, and the radical preacher John Ball, requiring flexibility, equality, and the entire uprooting of the Chapel and express. They believed these were rescuing the Ruler from his corrupt ministers and that England had to be saved. As well as for three intense, violent days and nights, it looked as if they would sweep all before them. In this gripping book, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in British record to fresh, urgent life on both a grand and seductive size, vividly portraying its central figures. It really is an archetypal tale of epic struggle between the powerful and the seemingly powerless.
