Medieval Europe · 15 June 1381
Fourteen at Smithfield
The rebels’ leader is cut down in front of a boy king who then rides at them
A fourteen-year-old king rode out to a meadow at Smithfield, just outside London’s wall, on the fifteenth of June, 1381, to talk to tens of thousands of angry countrymen who had already taken the city.
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