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"Very rapidly the carts that made up the rebels' rear defences became more attractive as getaway vehicles,..."

"Despenser used the discretionary powers he had assumed to himself as the diocesan avenging angel and sentenced the King of the Commons to a traitor's death."

Johan the Mullere hath ygrounde smal, smal, smal;

The Kynges sone of hevene schal paye for al.

Be ware or ye be wo;

Knoweth yower freend fro yower foo;

Haveth ynowe, and seith 'Hoo';

And do wel and bettre, and fleth synne,

And seketh pees, and holde yow therinne;

And so biddeth Johan Trewman and alle his felawes.

And I AM OBSESSED.

"John Schep, som tyme Seynt Marie prest of York, and now of Colchestre, greteth wel Johan Nameles, and Johan the Mullere, and Johan Cartere, and biddeth hem that thei ware of gyle in borugh, and stondeth togidre in Godes name, and biddeth Peres Ploughman go to his werk, and chastise wel Hobbe the Robbere, and taketh with yow Johan Trewman, and alle his felawes, and no mo, and loke schappe you to on heved, and no mo."

"Walworth had been eye to eye with Tyler before, staring across London Bridge two days earlier as the Kentish general directed the terror unleashed on Southwark and organised the storming of the bridge. Now the gap between these two rough-hewn leaders was not the swirling eddies of the Thames, but the smooth turf of Smithfield, bitten here and there by hoof-prints dried piles of dung..."

"So as the chill of a summer night drew in, and the evening of Wednesday, 12 June turned into the early hours of Thursday 13th – the festival of Corpus Christi – the crackle and glow of campfires would have lined the heath, casting an eerie, wavering light over excited, dirty faces, filled with pride and expectation..."