“But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status.”

—  Edward Jenks

Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter VI, Triumph Of The King's Courts, p. 72

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