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The revolt began in Essex when locals in Brentwood reacted to an over-zealous poll-tax collector. From Brentwood, resistance to tax collectors spread to neighbouring villages, while across counties such as Kent, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Norfolk, armed bands of villagers and townsmen also rose up and attacked manors and religious houses.

no offence 2 the person who wrote the above but that's what happended not the reasons

the reasons were: Taxes, England had been at war with France for almost 50 yrs! it cost alot and taxes were raised and a new one created, the poll tax most hated by peasants because of how unfair it was(they had to pay the same as the rich lordds), John Ball and other priests spread the idea peasants were just as good as the lords, the black death (many peasants died and they became more valuble they bagan to ask for more money/land in return for work and then they passed a new law to say peasants could not be payed more than before the black death), the king was only 14 and his advisors were useless.

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