Hello and welcome to the History of England, episode 121, Counter Revolution.

This week we're suffering from my ill discipline of last week when I failed to polish off

the great revolt.

So this week, as well as a survey of the State of the Church, we'll do that.

Then next time we'll get to a chap called John Wickliffe and since he's an Oxford man

we'll spend a bit of time talking about the medieval university, as exemplified by England

second best university, the University of Oxford.

So we left Richard in triumph.

Tyler was dead.

The revolt in London was over and he had covered himself in glory.

Fassar relates that he went back to Mum's house and stayed for the whole day to recover.

And yes it is fair to say that the boy done good.

He was fourteen years old and he'd seized the initiative and showed great courage when

it needed to be shown.

But the aftermath of the revolt will tell us more about the real man than the affair in

London.

The revolt might have been over in London, but it was not over in other parts of England.

The Chromicala Henry Knighton wrote, the hearts of all men in every part of the realm, however

remote, trembled with fear of the rebels.

And everywhere it was fearfully believed that the rebels were about to arrive in person

and without warning.

John Bull, priests of the revolt had not been found and he had fled, heading north toward

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