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"...Messengers were sent all over these districts in the summer of 1381, to prepare the country for the event. They were men of various countries, and they did not always visit the localities of which they were respectively natives. Such agitators had long been at work in the villages and towns of England, but they now came bearing, not general exhortations, but a particular command from the 'Great Society,' as they called the union of the lower classes which they were attempting to form." G. M. Trevelyan, England in the Age of Wycliffe, 1368-1520, page 202.

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