…accompanied by Essex men under Jack Straw, enter London on June 13 and burn Gaunts’s palace.

Thirteen-year-old king Richard II meets them personally on June 14 and negotiates a truce with the rebel, granting their demands for abolition of serfdom, elimination of wage restrictions, and low rents.

A London mob, however, seizes the Tower of London, murders the archbishop of Canterbury and others, and swings government opinion against the rebels, who make new demands.

After Tyler is slain by the mayor of London at a second meeting with the king, the rebels disperse and the king's concessions are withdrawn.

During the same period …