"If we measure intellectual power by the greatest exertion it ever displays, rather than by its average results, Richard II.

was a man of considerable talents.

He possessed along with much dissimulation a decisive promptitude in seizing the critical moment for action."[37] At Mile End Tyler stated the grievances of the people.

But first he asked that all traitors should be put to death, and to this the King agreed.
Four positive articles of reform were put forward, and were at once assented to by the King:-- 1.

A free and general pardon to all concerned in the rising.
2.