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  • The insurrection to which a large portion of the people of England were driven by the cruel tyranny and oppression which they suffered in the early part of King Richard's reign is commonly called Wat Tyler's insurrection, as if the affair with Wat Tyler were the cause and moving spring of it, whereas it was, in fact, only an incident of it.

    Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

  • Thus the law declined to recognize rights in property existing in fact, with the inevitable result of the peasant rising in 1381, known as Wat Tyler's Rebellion.

    The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887

  • John Wycliffe (circa 1320-1384) and who encouraged rioters during the 1831 peasants revolt known as Wat Tyler's Rebellion.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows robinmkatz 2010

  • Criminal wastage, such as Wat Tyler exposes, is appalling and needs to be roundly condemned but the perks of office - well why not?

    [blair house blues] exercise in pettiness 2009

  • Criminal wastage, such as Wat Tyler exposes, is appalling and needs to be roundly condemned but the perks of office - well why not?

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • "That is when I got fitted up by the press as Wat Tyler," he laughs.

    Giles Fraser: 'Economic justice is the number one moral issue in the Bible' 2011

  • Blogger Wat Tyler at Burning our Money tries not to be too disappointed ( "Lansley has made a reasonable start, and he is sounding a lot more radical than we'd ever expected.") while James Gubb at right of centre think tank Civitas seems to get more disheartened the more he studies the white paper:

    Society daily: 14.07.10 2010

  • If you'd like a catalogue of Labour blunders, there's a site called Burning Our Money, with a blogger called Wat Tyler.

    [after the destruction] come the calls for the dismantling 2009

  • His visiting would comprise DK, Theo, Wat Tyler and so on.

    [early mist] and the borderline of reality 2009

  • If you'd like a catalogue of Labour blunders, there's a site called Burning Our Money, with a blogger called Wat Tyler.

    [you bastards] manouevering us to serfdom 2009

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