Peasants’ Revolt: Wat Tyler and Richard II’s Poll Tax
June 1381 Peasants from across the south-east, led by Wat Tyler from Kent, stormed London in protest at the 15-year-old King Richard II’s shilling-per-head Poll Tax, raised to fund the war against France. On 2 June, two mass marches set off: From Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk From Kent and other …
