Smithfield, London
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Smithfield, properly known as West Smithfield, is a district located in Central London, part of Farringdon Without, the most westerly ward of the City of London, England.
Smithfield Meat Market
Depiction of Wat Tyler's demise by the hand of Sir William Walworth in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, with Richard II watching at right
Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, looking West, 1904 by Philip Norman
Old Smithfield in 1855, an outdoor market
Wat Tyler
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Wat Tyler was a leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England. He led a group of rebels from Canterbury to London to oppose the collection of a poll tax and to demand economic and social reforms. Whi
Smithfield, London
…establishment of Tyburn, the area bore witness to many executions of heretics and political rebels, as well as Scottish knight Sir William Wallace, and Wat Tyler, leader of the Peasants' Revolt, among many other religious reformers and dissenters (later on, public executions were generally moved out to Tyburn…
Engraving by Anker Smith
The death of Wat Tyler, illustrated in the Chronicles of Jean Froissart