RICHARD THE SECOND 1381-1400 [Sidenote: Results of the Peasant Revolt] Terrible as were the measures of repression which followed the Peasant Revolt, and violent as was the passion of reaction which raged among the proprietary classes at its close, the end of the rising was in fact secured.

The words of Grindecobbe ere his death were a prophecy which time fulfilled.

Cancel charters of manumission as the council might, serfage was henceforth a doomed and perishing thing.

The dread of another outbreak hung round the employer.

The attempts to bring back obsolete services quietly died away.