On the march to London, Wat Tyler's rebels seized Canterbury and burned the legal records of the cathedral and city — records of rents, villeinage obligations and legal judgments that bound the poor. Archbishop Simon Sudbury (also Lord Chancellor) had fled but his properties were attacked. The rebellion in Canterbury mirrored the wider assault on the instruments of feudal and royal administration. Sudbury was later dragged from the Tower of London and beheaded on Tower Hill by the London mob.
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