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Protesting (among other things) the attempt of some landowners to return English peasants to the feudal system of servitude, which has been considerably weakened by the labor shortage that followed the plague, Wat Tyler starts the Peasants' Revolt, the first popular uprising in English history, leading a large group of Kentish laborers who capture the city of Canterbury and then go on to London. Richard II offers concessions but Tyler counters with more-radical demands, which included the confiscation of all Church lands. Tyler is wounded in fighting that breaks out during negotiations and then is captured and beheaded on the orders of the lord mayor of London. After Tyler's death the rebellion ends quickly.
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