Wherefore, let us take good courage and behave like the wise husbandman of scripture, who gathered the wheat into his barn, but uprooted and burned the tares that had half-choked the good grain.

The tares of England are her oppressive rulers, and the time of harvest has come.

Ours it is to pluck up these tares and make away with them all--the wicked lords, the unjust judges, the lawyers--every man, indeed, who is dangerous to the common good.

Then shall we all have peace in our time and security for the future.

For when the great ones have been rooted up and cast away, all will enjoy equal freedom and nobility, rank and power shall we have in common." Thirty-thousand men--yeomen, craftsmen, villeins, and peasants, were at Blackheath, and these were soon joined by thousands more from Surrey.
John Wraw and Grindcobbe came to consult with Wat Tyler, and then returned to Suffolk and Hertford to announce that the hour had come to strike.
The Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons, and the houses of ill-fame that clustered round London Bridge, were destroyed before Wat Tyler led his army into the city.