what was the revolt quelled by thomas harley lord mayor of london?
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The Peasants' Revolt. He stabbed the leader Wat Tyler to death. It's why London has a dagger on its coat of arms.
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Henry VIII and the break with Rome\nClick on the * words in the site to show:\n\nPower - "Henry had hoped to resolve the issue of who was to succeed him"\n\nMoney - "As well as his desire for the divorce, there was a strong financial incentive for Henry to deny the authority of the Pope"\n\nFaith - "Although Henry's reformation broke with the papacy, his own religious beliefs were orthodox"\n\nLove - "Henry was in love with Anne Boleyn"
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The English/United Kingdom does not have "a bill of rights" the Magna Carta is the closest thing we have to it.\n\nThe Magna Carta established the principle that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant. \n\nIt basically contains few statements of principle but is more a list of consessions by the very unwilling King John.\n\nIt guarded the power of the barons and free men against the Crown, serfs were not included.\n\nIt did lay down the idea of Jury trial by your peers. In the case of the magna carta it stated Earls and Barons can only be fined by their equals.\n\nNo free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. And the state will not deny or delay the right of justice.
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None.  It was enacted as a response to the searches carried out by England which were the primary reason for the revolutionary wat.  England was issuing "writs of assistance" to customs officers to combat the growing problem of smuggling to avoid taxes paid to England.
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glad the forefathers didnt see it that way...so you could be a citizen subject to taxes but no voteing rights? think thats why we had a revolution with england. taxation without representation.
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In the United Kingdom the sovereign not only has immunity from prosecution, it has become accepted that he or she cannot be required to give evidence in court. \n\nIt is true that Charles I was tried for treason before a Parliamentary court, convicted and executed. However, it should be noted that after the Restoration in 1660 the men who had tried the king were arrested. Several of them were then hung, drawn and quartered and, with a few exceptions, the rest were imprisoned for life.
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The revolution in France had happened many years earlier, yet there was great social tension in England during the times of Charles Dickens. Work conditions for the poor were horrid, often resulting in strikes that ended in violent clashes between the police and the workers.\n\nA Tale of Two Cities can be seen as a warning to British society of the mid-nineteenth century. It is largely concerned with events within the Victorian society in which he lived and is set during a period some seventy years earlier. It shows both France and England in an unflattering light. \n\nYou can check out the following site for chapter-wies summary
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The Black Death led to cynicism toward religious officials who could not keep their promises of curing plague victims and banishing the disease. No one, the Church included, was able to cure or even explain the plague.
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From Shakespeare's "Henry VI":\n\n---------------\nDICK.\nThe first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. \n\nJACK CADE.\nNay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings: but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.- How now! who's there?\n---------------\n\nDespite what the ignorant believe, Shakespeare is not anti-lawyer, he's anti-anarchy.  Dick and Jack are revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the monarchy.
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Overall this war was casued due to the economic policies of the British Empire.  \n\nThere are also political causes such as the feelings of a lack of political representation within the English Empire, which then resulted in the above said economic policies.  This argument would be disputed by historical materialists.
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I voted to spite Blair but Livingstone turned out to be his plant.\nHoodwinked again.\nLondon is still run by others and we are paying more and more.\nHis control over transport is nil except for collecting money.\nHis tram systems are developer's dreams come true.\nScroungers, con artists and liars, and they all hold office.\nI've given up on this country.
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It is one of those questions where books could be written.  That said, a case could be made that the British started it by going against their (and America’s) Common Law, by not applying all of those rights to those living in the Americas.  It was only a matter of time before there would be a response to such a policy.  Since the British Crown reject peaceful petitions to redress grievances, violence would follow.
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Are you trying to say king henry the VIII..because he was the king that seperated from the catholic church of England because the pope would not let him get a divorce...then he created his own church..."Church of England"...he's the king that killed his wives when they would not reproduce for him....he had like 6 or 7 wives
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Modern historians have long known that the popular view of the Inquisition is a myth. The Inquisition was actually an attempt by the Catholic Church to stop unjust executions. \n\nHeresy was a capital offense against the state. Rulers of the state, whose authority was believed to come from God, had no patience for heretics. Neither did common people, who saw heretics as dangerous outsiders who would bring down divine wrath. \nWhen someone was accused of heresy in the early Middle Ages, they were brought to the local lord for judgment, just as if they had stolen a pig. It was not to discern whether the accused was really a heretic. The lord needed some basic theological training, very few did. The sad result is that uncounted thousands across Europe were executed by secular authorities without fair trials or a competent judge of the crime. \n\nThe Catholic Church's response to this problem was the Inquisition, an attempt to provide fair trials for accused heretics using laws of evidence and presided over by knowledgeable judges. \n\nFrom the perspective of secular authorities, heretics were traitors to God and the king and therefore deserved death. From the perspective of the Church, however, heretics were lost sheep who had strayed from the flock. As shepherds, the pope and bishops had a duty to bring them back into the fold, just as the Good Shepherd had commanded them. So, while medieval secular leaders were trying to safeguard their kingdoms, the Church was trying to save souls. The Inquisition provided a means for heretics to escape death and return to the community.\n\nMost people tried for heresy by the Inquisition were either acquitted or had their sentences suspended. Those found guilty of grave error were allowed to confess their sin, do penance, and be restored to the Body of Christ. The underlying assumption of the Inquisition was that, like lost sheep, heretics had simply strayed.\n\nIf, however, an inquisitor determined that a particular sheep had purposely left the flock, there was nothing more that could be done. Unrepentant or obstinate heretics were excommunicated and given over to secular authorities. Despite popular myth, the Inquisition did not burn heretics. It was the secular authorities that held heresy to be a capital offense, not the Church. The simple fact is that the medieval Inquisition saved uncounted thousands of innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people who would otherwise have been roasted by secular lords or mob rule.\n\nWhere did this myth come from? After 1530, the Inquisition began to turn its attention to the new heresy of Lutheranism. It was the Protestant Reformation and the rivalries it spawned that would give birth to the myth. Innumerable books and pamphlets poured from the printing presses of Protestant countries at war with Spain accusing the Spanish Inquisition of inhuman depravity and horrible atrocities in the New World. \n\nWith love in Christ.
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This would be funny if it were not so feasable! The one place he would not be is the Peoples Republic of Islington. Why? because Tone & Cherie live there, cant lower the standards can we?
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According to the popular story, the beautiful Lady Godiva took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband's oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should keep within doors or shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her long hair. Only one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in the first famous instance of voyeurism. In the story, Tom bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass, and is struck blind. In the end, Godiva's husband keeps his word and abolishes the onerous taxes\n\n(Text taken from link below)
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Battle of Hastings\n\nGreat Fire of London\n\nGuy Fawkes