Chapter III "WHETHER JUSTLY OR OUT OF HATE" “The time came for the King to punish the delinquents,” wrote the monk Henry Knighton. “Lord Robert Tresilian, justice, [who had been appointed to replace the murdered chief justice, Sir John Cavendish] was therefore sent by the King’s command to...

Chapter II: FOR NOW IT IS TYME TO BE WAR The Encyclopaedia Britannica calls it a “curiously spontaneous” rebellion. Barbara Tuchman, in her fourteenth-century history, A Distant Mirror, said that the rebellion spread “with some evidence of planning.” Winston Churchill went further. In The...

Chapter 1: THE URGE TO KILL In 1347, over a thousand miles from London, the Kipchak Mongols were besieging a walled Genoese trading center on the Crimean coast. Kipchak besiegers were beginning to die in large numbers from a strange disease that appeared to be highly infectious. In what may be...