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===Meeting point=== [[File:Blackheath.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|An aerial view of the heath looking south, with [[All Saints' Blackheath|All Saints' Church]] in the centre rear of the heath]] Blackheath was a rallying point for [[Wat Tyler]]'s [[Peasants' Revolt]] of 1381,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wat Tyler and the Peasants Revolt|url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Wat-Tyler-the-Peasants-Revolt/|access-date=2020-12-03|website=Historic UK|language=en-GB}}</ref> and for [[Jack Cade]]'s Kentish rebellion in 1450 (both recalled by road names on the west side of the heath). After camping at Blackheath, [[Cornwall|Cornish]] rebels were defeated at the foot of the west slope in the [[Cornish Rebellion of 1497|Battle of Deptford Bridge]] (sometimes called the Battle of Blackheath) on 17 June 1497. In 1400, [[Henry IV of England]] met here with Byzantine Emperor [[Manuel II Palaiologos]] who toured western royalty to seek support to oppose [[Bayezid I|Bayezid I (Bajazet)]], the Ottoman Sultan. In 1415, the lord mayor and aldermen of London, in their robes of state, attended by 400 of the principal citizens, clothed in scarlet, came hither in procession to meet [[Henry V of England]] on his triumphant return from the [[Battle of Agincourt]].<ref name=sl/> Blackheath was, along with [[Hounslow Heath]], a common assembly point for army forces, such as in 1673 when the [[Blackheath Army]] was assembled under [[Marshal Schomberg]] to serve in the [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]]. In 1709β10, army tents were set up on Blackheath to house a large part of the 15,000 or so German refugees from the [[Palatinate (region)|Palatinate]] and other regions who fled to England, most of whom subsequently settled in America or Ireland.<ref>Lucy Forney Bittinger, ''The Germans in Colonial Times'' (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1901), p.67</ref> With Watling Street carrying stagecoaches across the heath, en route to north Kent and the [[English Channel|Channel]] ports, it was also a notorious haunt of [[Highwayman|highwaymen]] during the 17th and 18th centuries. As reported in Edward Walford's ''Old and New London'' (1878), "In past times it was planted with [[gibbet]]s, on which the bleaching bones of men who had dared to ask for some extension of liberty, or who doubted the infallibility of kings, were left year after year to dangle in the wind."<ref name=Walford>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45277 'Blackheath and Charlton', ''Old and New London'': Volume 6 (1878), pp. 224-236] accessed: 4 November 2009</ref> In 1909 Blackheath had a local branch of the London Society for Women's [[Suffrage]].<ref>By Elizabeth Crawford, ed. ''The Women's Suffrage Movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928'', ''s.v.'' "Blackheath"</ref>
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