The Black Death stayed in London until the 1350’s wiping out an estimated third to a half of the population. Peasants from the country side saw this as an opportunity to live the privilege urban life style they’ve dreamed and migrated. Adding to the recent plague that wiped out a great percentage of peasant, it only adds up to a shortage of labourers already affecting landowners. The shortage of labours worked in favour of the peasants and many saw this a loophole to challenge the old feudal systems of Serfdom and being tied to the land. The peasants made demands for higher wages and prices of goods, especially since trading has dwindle in the Black Death era and after. In the year 1349 the Ordinance of Labourers intervened and tried to regulate
