With rtfptê: to the common people of London, pumbers were/of their opinions, and, on afïëmbJïng-together, faid,—« Why will you rcfijfc admittance to thefe honeft men ? They arc qt|r friends, «an4 Vhat they are doing is for our good J It was then found neceflary to open the gates, when crowds jrUfhed in, and ran to thofe (hops which feemcd well ftqred with provifion : if they fought for meat or drink, it was placée} before them, and nothing refuftd, but all manner of goiod cheer offered, |n hopes of appealing them. Thejr leaders, John Ball, Jack Straw and Wat Tyler, then marched through London, attende^ by morç than twenty thoufand men, to the palace of the Savoy, which is 3 handfome building on the road to ^Yeftminfter, fituated on the banks of the Thames, belonging %o the duke of Lancafter : they immediately killed the porters, prefled into the houfe and fet it on fire. Not content with committing this outrage, they went to the houfe of the knights-hofpitalers of Rhodes, dedicated to St. John of Mount Carmel, which they burnt, to* gether with their hofpital and church. They afterwards paraded the ftreets, and killed every Fleming they could find, whether in houfe, church pr hofpital : not one efcaped death. They broke open feveral houfes of the Lombards, taking what-ever money they could lay their hands, on, none daring to oppofe them. They murdered a rich citizen called Richard Lyon, to whom Wat Tyler had been formerly fervant in France; but, having once beaten this varlet, he had not forgotten it, and, • $47,