Identifier: ridpathshist03ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnatti : The Jones brothers New York : Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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th a presence of mind andcourage not to have been expected in one whohad displayed so many weaknesses, rodeboldly among the rebels and exclaimed in acalm voice, My friends, be not concernedfor the loss of your unworthy leader ; I wUlbe your leader; and turning his horse hesuited the action to the word by putting him-self in Wat Tylers place. This presence ofmind on the part of Richard succeeded to ad-miration. The multitude, with its usual fickle-ness, turned and followed the king. At thisjuncture, however, a vast throng of loyalcitizens, hearing a false report that Richardhad been slain by the rebels, rushed forthfrom the city to fall upon the insurgents, who,seeing themselves about to be cut down, fell PEOPLE AND KINGS.—ENGLAND IN 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES. 121 humbly before the king aud besought his par-don. The mUd temper of the monarch soughtnot to take advautage of the defeated mob or to destroy what was no longer dangerous.Pardon was freely granted, and the revolt wasat an end.
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DEATH OF WAT TYLER.Drawn by L. P. Leyendecker. 122 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. The immediate effect -was to heightengreatly the esteem in which Richard was heldby his subjects. It soon appeared, however,that his recent display of courageous viituehad been pressed out by the emergency, andthat his moral nature was exhausted by thesudden drain. His unkiugly qualities againbecame conspicuous, and his disqualificationfor the work of governing was more and moremanifest. A short time after the suppressionof Wat Tylers rebellion the king revoked thecharters which he had granted, and that stateof half-serfdom called vilkmage, under whichthe English had groaned since the days of theConquest, was restored. Meanwhile the kingsuncle, the Duke of Lancaster, continued toprosecute his schemes of ambition. His mar-riage with Constantia, daughter of Pedro theCruel of Castile, and the usurpation of theCastilian crown by Henry of Trastamare,furnished old John of Gaunt with an admi-rable prete

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