How Virginity Tests Were The Reason For The Revolution Against The King Of England
The peasants couldn’t bear that these soldiers would check their daughters’ virginity
When the Injustice be normal. When oppressive people get rewarded for what they’ve done, honest people are imprisoned or killed.
The balance of this world has changed completely. And freedom slowly dies day by day. Injustice has spread, and it’s wearing the mask of fairness and justice.
Freedom, how much I miss that word.
This word has gone through tough times, even the people no longer believe in.
This word could cost you everything: your life, money, health, and family.
That word is like a bomb when you use it, you’ll lose. During these years I have never known or tested the true meaning of this word. I searched for her again and again until I knew that injustice killed freedom.
When you run in an endless marathon in the hope of finding freedom in a world where injustice has engulfed many hearts. Running through this marathon is like running in a vicious circle that only ends when you fall on the ground.
Don’t illusion or drift with all those speeches calling for freedom; everyone who calls for those freedoms is the one who kills it.
All the decision-makers and leaders have made this word suffer. The freedom has become boring and disgusting because of those speeches.
They have yet to understand the true meaning of this word. Throughout history, no leader has respected or appreciated this word.
The folks must obey the orders and anyone that will move on the line of obedience will killed or get in prison.
Before 640 years ago, the fourteen-year-old king won against France in a war that lasted more than 100 years.
Outside England, this king was making history. But inside it, people had a different view that would have changed England’s history forever.
In 1381 in Essex village (England) When the government announced to the people to pay more tax. Everyone who has 15 years old and older must pay this tax.
This money wasn’t a tremendous deal for the lords or Bishop, but the farm laborers were suffering to pay this tax. If this laborer couldn’t pay, they will take the kind thing such as seeds, tools, etc.
Many people weren’t able to pay, so they were recording the wrong age number for their children to avoid tax.
When the tax collector arrived in Essex Village to see why people didn’t pay tax.
Tax collectors want to know the puberty of girls by checking their virginity. Virginity had nothing to do with puberty, and the soldiers thought the villagers wouldn’t do anything to them if they checked.
But, the villagers appear to have made an exception to his investigation and immediately expelled them
After month, the young king sent soldiers to Restore the prestige of the system, re-establish law and order. But the villagers received the soldiers with axes and hammers.
The villagers killed six soldiers and the rest of them withdrawn.
This news resonated greatly in the country, and from that moment that was the first spark of the revolution.
Anger, poverty, and hunger dominated most people in the country. This thing was because of the Serfdom.
Serfdom is a legal and economic system. In most serfdoms, serfs were legally part of the land, and if the land was sold, they were sold with it.
This was the essential feature differentiating serfs from slaves, who were bought and sold without reference to a plot of land.
This serf cannot marry or permit his or her daughter or sons to get marry before taking the lords permission.
And this serf was must cultivated the land for a year without any wage.
The people who owned these lands were the Lord or the Bishop. But people like artists and industrialists and traders…etch, called villagers.
After many people killed by the plague. Villagers have declared their need to raise their wages because their work has become double. But the Government did not take this seriously. On the contrary, the villagers were ordered to cultivate the land for a long time and with the same pay.
The villagers endured war on France, the plague, and the serfdom system. But they couldn’t bear that these soldiers would check their daughters’ virginity.
Villagers carried their weapons and decided to marched to London to make a deal with their young king.
The villagers didn’t blame that young king for all these problems that happened to them because he is a boy. But their blame and anger amied at his treasurer Robert Hales, Archbishop Sudbury as his chancellor and prime minister, and John of Gaunt the King’s eldest uncle (He was the actual king for the country).
The villagers were insistent to achieve their freedom. More than a 60,000 people took part in the revolution. They burned tax records and registers, and removed heads from many tax officials who objected. They burned buildings that housed government records down.
There were not many soldiers in the city because most of them were in the War of France, so the only soldiers were the King’s private guard.
The king took a boat on the River Thames to meet the villagers, and asked them to leave the city. The peasants asked to see the king face to face but he felt scared, so he went back to his palace and left the villagers.
There was no solution for the peasants except to enter the capital and burn down the king’s uncle’s palace and they wanted to kill him, but they didn’t find him.
The young king is afraid of what happened to his uncle’s palace, so he decides to meet the peasants but out of town.
The peasants presented the king with four demands: waiving taxes, ensuring freedom of trade, waiving squares and sleeves also reducing land fare toto four pences for each hectare, and not punishing any of them for participating in this revolution.
The King could not say anything to the peasants, so he let them enter the Tower of London unhindered, which led them to believe that this King is with them by handing over both Robert Hales and Archbishop of Canterbury.
That was enough for the peasants at that moment. The King was honest in all his promises and accepted all their demands, also helping them kill the dictators’ ministers who took the tax from them.
Most peasants returned to their villages despite all the warnings from their leader.
This leader used to work in the brick bishop industry, this guy was called Wat Tyler.
Tyler said that the peasant should stay and hold on to their demands because their strength is in their numbers and stay in London after occupied it with these weapons.
And the peasant ignored Tyler’s warning by saying, if the king’s promises became real and he didn’t have that evil because he was still a boy. All this evil came from his ministers and we killed them.
Tyler asked to see the King again, but this time the King knew that the revolutionaries were no longer the same as in the past and that they disagreed and broke up.
Tyler offered the King other demands, namely, freedom for every slave in the city, renunciation of an aristocracy that meant that no lord had any
people or land, and that no one had titles except the King and
under him all people are the same, and all churchgoers are expelled and stripped of all their titles. Appointed of Bishop of Priest John Paul in Canterbury.
Tyler continued, The court should be local with judges from the same area, and also that the police be local and that the police be recruited from the same area, impounded the money for lords and the churchmen to distributing it to all people equally.
The king accepted all these demands, and did not say any conditions, but the only thing the king wanted was for his people to respect him.
Before the end of this meeting, one of the King’s servants yelled, Hi, Walter, I know you. You’re the thief of kent.
Tyler said, Be man and said this front of me. This served didn’t take any step.
But the Lord Mayor drew his dagger and slashed at Tyler.
Badly injured with a knife wound in his neck, Tyler was taken to nearby St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
The peasants who were with Tyler prepared to fight Richard II’s soldiers.
But they didn’t do that because they remembered this king is innocent and helped them before days to killed the dictators’ Ministers. Also, the king soldiers carried Tyler to the hospital, so they put the weapons down rather fight.
The king addressed them with the cry, ‘I am your king, I will be your leader. Follow me into the fields’.
When the King succeeded in separating these peasants from their leader, the King’s soldiers used this opportunity to remove Tyler’s head from his shoulders.
The soldiers sent Tyler’s head to the peasants trapped from the king in the fields. When the peasants saw their leader’s head, they surrendered to the king.
As for these 60,0000 peasants who returned to their village, they are happy and feel successful with all these promises, made by the King.
Here’s their king, breaking all the promises he made with them and sending death soldiers to kill them
When Richard II asked the peasants to follow him to the field, perhaps because the peasants burned the church (that church for the team of soldiers that Robert Hales was leading) in this field while searching for ministers to kill them.
Maybe Richard II did this as revenge or a natural response to what happened to his ministers.
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Charlotte Brontë
The human is born full of freedom. But as soon as this human being gets older, and starts watching
the gaps in his society, this freedom will be a time bomb that will kill him or kill his freedom. We are the kings or leaders who made them powerful and our fear of them comes only from ourselves.
The peasant revolution could have been successful if they didn’t trust their king until taking all their needs.
Revolution is to take everything or that’s not going to be called revolution. In the revolution, you must not be compassionate or sympathetic. The revolution is to be angry at those who have deprived you of these things.
Don’t be merciful to the person who caused your suffering. The peasants were merciful to the king, but in return, this king did not view them with any mercy. He killed them in cold blood, broke all the contracts
and promises he made with them, and stayed on the ruling throne.
Freedom is true, and the reflection of that word must also be true. All these years we haven’t learned that the leaders in this office, we’re the only ones who decide who to go and who not.
