WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:11:05 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Richard II – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Richard II -- Speech (1381-06-22) to the peasant followers of Wat Tyler at Walthamstow, St Alban’s Chronicle https://wist.info/richard-ii/75301/ https://wist.info/richard-ii/75301/#respond Sun, 02 Mar 2025 23:35:09 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=75301 You wretches, detestable on land and sea; you who seek equality with lords are unworthy to live. Give this message to your colleagues: rustics you were and rustics you are still: you will remain in bondage, not as before but incomparably harsher. For as long as we live we will strive to suppress you, and your misery will be an example in the eyes of posterity. How ever, we will spare your lives if you remain faithful and loyal. Choose now which course you want to follow .


Richard II of England (1367–1400) King of England (1377–1399) [Richard of Bordeaux]
Speech (1381-06-22) to the peasant followers of Wat Tyler at Walthamstow, St Alban’s Chronicle
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