While Richard II met rebels at Mile End and granted their demands, another group seized the Tower of London and murdered the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Treasurer. The simultaneous events showed how close England came to revolution. The Mile End concessions were subsequently repudiated — "villeins ye are, and villeins ye shall remain" — but the revolt had revealed the fragility of feudal authority.
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