ABSTRACT
Judging from the relatively small number of royal pardons received by inhabitants of the county of Huntingdonshire, the Berengers were spared the turmoil experienced in regions close to London or in the counties of Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Norfolk, and Suffolk. The Berengers could have received news of Sir Richard Waldegraves speech at Westminster, as speaker of the Commons, in which he suggested that the issue of a pardon was a chance to reawaken the sense of obligation among the kings subjects, and to encourage officials to perform their duties conscientiously and the governments response should comprise reform and reconciliation. The issue of taxation surely was a very important one in Warboys, and the rhetoric of John Balls sermons may well have also resonated with some of the Berengers, especially with Richard and Agnes who owed labor services for tenement that they held in the 1380s.
