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I visited a ruined monastery in the Norfolk Broads today. One of the info points said that peasants broke in a burnt all the church records during the revolt in 1381. Why would they do that? weren't most/all English peasants Catholic at the time?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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