Wat Tyler brass plaque

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# Smithfield: Where Wat Tyler's Rebellion Met Its End Standing at Smithfield in the summer of 1381, you would have witnessed the violent climax of the Great Rising—the moment when the 14-year-old King Richard II's guards struck down Wat Tyler, the charismatic rebel leader, in front of thousands of ...

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Smithfield

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This memorial commemorating The Great Rising of 1381 was commissioned by Matthew Bell, carved by Emily Hoffnung, and unveiled by Ken Loach on 15th July 2015. "If the barons merited a monument to be erected at Runnymede, Tyler merited one at Smithfield" Thomas Paine 1791