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The late AndrZ Reville had projected a work on this movement and had got together a vast collection of records of trials, inquests, petitions, and escheators' rolls for this purpose. Professor Oman has enjoyed the use of all of these documents, and also includes some new and unpublished material regarding the poll-tax. He thinks he has discovered why that impost met with such universal detestation, how the poorer class in England conspired to defeat its operation, and how the counterstroke made by this governement provoked the rebellion. THE NATION Illus. with maps. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries; Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.