[1] With which words Wat Tiler taking indigna|tion, drew out his dagger, menacing to strike the knight, calling him therewith traitor: the knight dis|daining to be misused at the hands of such a ribald, told him that he lied falselie, and with that plucked foorth his dagger. Wat Tiler being among his men, shewed that he would not beare that iniurie, and foorthwith made towards the knight to run vpon him. The king perceiuing the knight in danger, bad him alight from his horsse, and deliuer his dagger to Wat Tiler: but when that would not pacifie his proud and high mind, but that he would néeds flée vp|on him, the maior of London William Walworth, and other knights and esquiers that were about the king, told him that it should be a shame for them all,William Wal|worth maior of London [...] stout coura|gious man. if they permitted the knight in their presence before the eies of their prince so to be murthered: wherfore they gaue counsell to succor him foorthwith, and to apprehend the vile naughtie ribald. The king though he was but a child in yeares, yet taking courage to him, commanded the maior to arrest him. The maior being a man of incomparable boldnesse, foorthwith rode to him and arrested him, in reaching him such a blow on the head, that he sore astonied him there|with: and streightwaies other that were about the king, as Iohn Standish an esquier, and diuers more of the kings seruants drew their swords,The death of Wat Tiler capteine of the rebels. and thrust him through in diuerse parts of his bodie, so that he fell presentlie from his horsse downe to the earth, and died there in the place.