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                    ************** ************************************** the hearts of the subjects from the King. With that money preparations were made and eight thousand men went to France‘ under the conduct of Thomas Woodstock the King's uncle who passing over Soam Oyle ard Marne rivers, spoiled and burned all the country and ransacked the inha- bitants, till he came to Britany ; and hav- ing taken sufficient satisfaction for the be- forementioned insult given to the King his nephew, returned home again.

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CHAP. II.

Of the dangerous Rebellion raised by      Wat Tyler and Jack Straw

ABOUT this time one John Ball factious clergyman, a scholar Wickliff, observing the common people greatly to murmur at the payment of the aforesaid subsidy ; in ail places where he came used secretly to inform the inferior sort of people, such as were meanly edu- cated, poor an needy That by their ori- ginal descent from Adam all men were