The Just Reward of Rebels, Or the Life and Death of Jack Straw, and Wat Tyler ... Whereunto is Added the Ghost of Jack Straw [in Verse], Etc

Résumé du livre

On the title-page of this tract is a woodcut, representing four ghosts, wrapped in winding-sheets and carrying torches, and a skeleton, standing near a man in the costume of the sixteenth century, who is terrified by the appearing of the ghosts and skeleton. The text of this tract gives an admonitory account of the rising of the people under Wat Tyler, and comprises a woodcut of the murder of that leader. It concludes with a set of verses threatening the "Irish Rebells".