Prefer letters to be given fealed with my feàl, whifch they fhàll carry back with every demand Jrou have made fully granted : and, in order that you may be the more fatisfied, I will direft that my banners fhall be fent to evçry fttwardfhip, caftlewick and corporarion/ Thefe words greatly appeafed fhc novices and well-pieaning ones who were there,-and knew not what they wanted, faying,—c It is wçll Md we do not wifh for more/ The people were thus quieted, and began to return towards London. ' The king added a few words, which pleafed them much : f You, my good people of Kent, fhall have one of my banners ; and you alfo bf EiTex, SufTex, Bedford, Suffolk, Cambridge, Stafford and Lincoln, fhall each of you have one ; and I pardon you all for what you hitherto have done ; but you muft follow my banners, and now return home on the terms I have mentioned/ They unanimoufly replied, they would. Thus did this great afTembly break up, and fetr out for London. • ' ' The king inftantly employed upwards of thirty • fecretaries, who drew up the letters as faft as they could ; and, having fealed and delivered them to thefe people, tjjey departed, and returned to their • own counties. ' The principal mifchief remained behind : I mean, Wat Tyler, Jack Straw and John Ball, who declared, that though the people wereiafctefied, they1 would not thus depart ; and they had more than thirty thoufand who wdre of their mind. They ' VOL. V. A a continued S53