Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Naughty men


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Delving further into the archive of English radicalism, I came across the wonderful words of the sermon that John Ball preached to the rebels on Blackheath. This was in the summer of the the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381. I quote:

“From the beginning all men by nature were created alike,
and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of
naughty men”

The full text is here.

4 comments:

Joolz said...

There are so many kinds of naughty men.

Aigburthvale said...

I think he was a drinking pal of Wat Tyler...

Guy Merchant said...

Do you think they drank?

Guy Merchant said...

Drinking or not, we're still oppressed by naughty men!