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Show Landlords Too Greedy. Attempts to 3x by statute the wage3 o agricultural laborers in England were largely responsible for the groat re-folt of 1381, or "Wat Tyler's rebel-lion rebel-lion " It represented the despairing effoit of landowners to got back to the level of wages before the black death same to make labor dear. But the lord ot the manor overshot the mark. He wanted the day wage kept down to four cents to six cents a day. Had he put six cents to eight cents In the schedule there might have been no rebellion. |