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out a fleet to oppose them -- In 1381 a Poll tax being raised on all persons above 15 years of age for the assistance of Ferdinand King of Portugal, against John King of Castile it was levied with the greatest vigour and brutality by the collectors, on which a rebellion was raised and 100,000 Men Appeared in Arms, headed by Wat Tyler a Tyler, of Deptford, and Jock Straw, who committed innumerable disorders, and entered London without opposition, but William Walworth the mayor, killing Wat Tayler with a blow of his sword
