Waltham Abbey was one of the great monastic houses of Essex and a major landlord in the region. Essex rebels attacked it during the Peasants' Revolt, forcing the monks to surrender their records and charters of villeinage — the legal documents that bound peasants to the land. The destruction of such records was a symbolic and practical act of liberation that recurred across the revolt.
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