English troops are near starvation when they reach Brittany. The last English expedition into France in 14th century. Constable of France Bertrand du Guesclin falls ill and dies while besieging a castle in the Auvergne. Parliament convenes in Northampton. It votes in the third poll tax in 4 years.
Parliament refuses to grant taxes for war.
An attempt is made to subvert the key port of La Rochelle. Sir Robert Hales, Prior of St. John, named Treasurer. Villages in Essex refuse to pay poll tax, and resistance spreads to Kent. A mob of peasants led by Wat Tyler, an eloquent war veteran, takes control of Canterbury and frees vagrant priest John Ball from prison. Another pillages the manor house of the treasurer, Sir Robert Hales.