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Identifier: englandinageofw00trev (find matches)
Title: England in the age of Wycliffe
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Subjects: Wycliffe, John, d. 1384 Tyler's Insurrection, 1381
Publisher: (London) : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ENGLISH FEEEDOM 255 There were continual revolts in South Yorkshire, both at Don-caster and Beverley. In Oxfordshire a body of rebels issuedthe following remarkable proclamation: * Arise all men and go with us, or else truly and by God ye shall be d . ^ It was better that rebellion should show its head in an age whenso much was wrong, than that all complaint should be stifled.Since Parliament only vented the grievances of the middleclass, the labourers needed to make themselves heard byrioting. The government was bad, the social system wasdecaying, the time was out of joint. A strong expression ofdiscontent was natural and right. No one can be sorry that the Kising was put down.Though as a protest it was perhaps useful, as a revolutionit could only have led to anarchy. On the other hand,it would be rash to regret that it took place. It was asign of national energy, it was a sign of independence andself-respect in the mediaeval peasants, from whom three-quarters of our race, of all cla

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