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"Then they seized a certain item of clothing (the costliest) – which we call a ‘jack’ – and hoisted it up on a lance as a target at which to shoot their arrows. And when they only did a little damage shooting forcefully at it, they pulled it down and rent it with axes and swords." - A Chronicler’s Account of the Revolting Peasants’ Destruction of John of Gaunt’s Savoy Palace, Near the City of London, June 1381