Peasants' revolts

Exercise: Read the text and answer the question below:

"Good people, nothing can go well in England unless there is neither villein nor nobleman. The men we call lords, what makes them our masters?. The wear silks and velvets while we wear poor cloth. They have wine, spices and good bread, but we eat rye and straw, and have water to drink. They live in fine manors, we sweat and toil in the fields in the wind and the rain. They call us slaves and beat us if we do not serve them. We have no one to listen to us. Let  us go to the Ling and xplain our situtaion. Let us tell him we want it changed, or else we will change it ourselves."

(Speech of John Ball, 13 June 1381)

a) What were the daily conditions of peasants?

b) How did the nobles or lords live?

c) Relate with the thing you know: what were the causes of  the peasants' revolts?