Note 63 — Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt 1381

“Tyler, according to Walsingham, was a man of ready ability and good sense. Save in some excesses, which, perhaps, were politic, possibly unavoidable, and certainly exaggerated, the rebels under him are admitted to have kept good order, and to have readily submitted to discipline.”—Thorold Rogers. To Froissart Tyler appears merely as “a bad man, and a great enemy of the nobility.”