{{Short description|1377 English rural worker protest movement}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} The '''Great Rumour''' was a protest movement that emerged in south-east and south-west England during 1377.
During 1377, protests began to break out in south-east and south-west England.<ref>{{harvnb|Faith|1987|p=43}}</ref> Rural workers organised themselves into protest groups and refused to work for their lords, arguing that, according to the Domesday Book, they were exempt from requests for feudal labour services.<ref>{{harvnb|Faith|1987|pp=44–46}}</ref> This argument depended on the legal concept of ''ancient demesne'', and their belief that the Domesday Book was an accurate reflection of early land tenure agreements.<ref>{{harvnb|Faith|1987|pp=52–53}}</ref> Unsuccessful appeals and petitions were made both to the law courts and to King Richard II.<ref>{{harvnb|Faith|1987|p=69}}</ref> The events of the Great Rumour closely resembled much of the subsequent Peasants' Revolt of 1381.<ref>{{harvnb|Faith|1987|pp=69–70}}</ref>
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==Bibliography== * {{cite book | last = Faith | first = Rosamond | editor1-last=Hilton | editor1-first=Rodney | editor2-last=Alton | editor2-first=T. H. | year = 1987 | chapter = The 'Great Rumour' of 1377 and Peasant Ideology | title = The English Rising of 1381 | edition = | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location= Cambridge, UK | isbn = 9781843837381 | pages = 43–73 }}
Category:Protests in England Category:1377 in England Category:Conflicts in 1377
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