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                               (  9  ) to the Tower, from which place he had come.

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CHAP. III.

Of the further Vilianies committed by Wat Tyler and his dissolute Crew ; i and of his being fiain by Sir William Walworth.

THE next day these unruly rake- shames approached London, where they found the gates locked up. and the this they sent a message to William Wal- worth then Lord Mayor of London, that they had not admittance into the city immediately, they would destroy all the men, women and children on the South- wark side; plunder their houses and set fire to the Borough and churches there ; withal vowing vengeance on the citizens, they forced their way into the city.— for the prevention of this it was ordered that the gates should be directly opened, and the bridge let down ; whereupon they entered, where their fury, with fair
 * ring drawn up and well guarded ; upon