How to say peasant revolt in sign language? Numerology Chaldean Numerology The numerical value of peasant revolt in Chaldean Numerology is: 9 Pythagorean Numerology The numerical value of peasant revolt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6. Select another language:. Please enter your email address: Subscribe. Discuss these peasant revolt definitions with the community: 0 Comments. Notify me of new comments via email.
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The ASL fingerspelling provided here is most commonly used for proper names of people and places; it is also used in some languages for concepts for which no sign is available at that moment. There are obviously specific signs for many words available in sign language that are more appropriate for daily usage. Browse Definitions. In , some 35 years after the Black Death had swept through Europe decimating over one third of the population, there was a shortage of people left to work the land.
Not surprisingly the government of the day, comprising mainly of the land-owning Bishops and Lords, passed a law to limit any such wage rise. In addition to this, extra revenue was required to support a long and drawn out war with the French, and so a poll tax was introduced. It was the third time in four years that such a tax had been applied. This crippling tax meant that everyone over the age of 15 had to pay one shilling.
Perhaps not a great deal of money to a Lord or a Bishop, but a significant amount to the average farm labourer! And if they could not pay in cash, they could pay in kind, such as seeds, tools etc. All of which could be vital to the survival of a farmer and his family for the coming year. Things appear to have come to a head when in May a tax collector arrived in the Essex village of Fobbing to find out why the people there had not paid their poll tax. The villagers appear to have taken exception to his enquiries and promptly threw him out.
The following month, the year-old King Richard II sent in his soldiers to re-establish law and order. But the villagers of Fobbing meted out the same unceremonious treatment to them. Joined by other villagers from all corners of the southeast of England, the peasants decided to march on London in order to plead their case for a better deal before their young king.
Not that the peasants blamed Richard for their problems, their anger was aimed instead at his advisors — Simon Sudbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury , and John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, whom they believed to be corrupt. In what appears to have been a well organized and coordinated popular uprising, the peasants set off for London on the 2nd June in a sort of pincer movement.
Soon both Essex and Kent were in revolt. The rebels coordinated their tactics by letter. They marched in London, where they destroyed the houses of government ministers. They also had a clear set of political demands. Before the rebel army could retaliate, Richard stepped forward and promised to abolish serfdom.
The peasants went home, but later government troops toured the villages hanging men who had taken part in the Revolt.
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