After this there was no farther serious trouble. The insurgents were disheartened, and most of them were glad to make the best of their way home. After the danger was past, Richard revoked all the decrees of emancipation which he had issued, on the ground that they had been extorted from him by violence and intimidation, and also that the condition on which they had been granted, namely, that the men should retire at once quietly to their homes, had not been complied with on their part. He found it somewhat difficult to recover them all, but he finally succeeded. He also sent commissions to all the towns and villages which had been implicated in the rebellion, and caused great numbers of persons to be tried and condemned to death. Many thousands were thus executed. Indeed, the rebellion had extended far and wide; for, besides the disturbances in and near London, there had been risings in all parts of the kingdom, and great excesses committed every where. When the rebellion was thus quelled, things returned for a time into substantially the same condition as before, and yet the bondage of the people was never afterward so abject and hopeless as it had been. A considerable general improvement was the result. Indeed, such outbreaks as this against oppression are like the earthquakes of South America, which, though they cause for the time great terror, and often much destruction, still have the effect to raise the general level of the land, and leave it forever afterward in a better condition than before. The cause of these rebels, moreover, badly as they managed it, was in the main a just cause; and it is to precisely such convulsive struggles as these, that have been made from time to time by the common people of England in the course of their history, that their descendants, the present commons of England and the people of America, are indebted for the personal rights and liberties which they now enjoy. CHAPTER XI. GOOD QUEEN ANNE. A.D. 1382-1394 The planning of Richard's first marriage.--Journey of the bridal party toward England.--Their way is cut off by sea.--The bride enters Calais.--Great display.--The bride arrives in England.--Great excitement in London.--A contrast.--The bride enters London.--Parades and rejoicings.--Character of the queen.--Why she was called Good Queen Anne.--Ancient drawings.--Curious fashions of those times.--Costumes of Richard's time.--The Cracows.--Origin of the name.--The horned caps.--Description of the horns.--Pins.--Side-saddles.--Queen Anne's useful and busy life.--Shene.--Grand celebration.--The tournament.--Knights.--Magnificence of the king's mode of life.--Death of Queen Anne.--The king inconsolable.--The funeral.--Inscription on Queen Anne's tomb. King Richard was married twice. His first queen was named Anne. She was a Bohemian princess, and so is sometimes called in history Anne of Bohemia. She was, however, more commonly called Good Queen Anne.