Excerpt from Readings From English History, Vol. 2: From Cressy to Cromwell

But on every man and woman personally, by head, which was hence called a poll-tax. This was levied from people who had till now been free from taxation, and who were just awaking to the injustice of their state as serfs, or bondsmen, bound to do service in labour on their lords' lands. A preacher named John Ball fanned the discontent into a temper of rebellion, and in 1381 the commons rose in the Peasant Revolt.

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