Tyler Wat

Tyler WAT, one of five Tylers who took part in the peasant rising in 1381. Wat of Dartford liberated John Ball from Maidstone Gaol, and headed a body of peasants, who on June 13 marched into London, killed lawyers and Flemings, destroyed John of Gaunt's Savoy Palace, and took possession of the Tower. Wat was struck down by Sir William Walworth while parleying with the king at Smithfield two days later.