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  1. Area of the East End of London, in the
  2. district of Stepney, now part of the London
  3. borough of Tower Hamlets. Mile End Green (now
  4. Stepney Green) was the scene of Richard II's
  5. meeting with the rebel peasants 1381, and in
  6. later centuries was the exercise ground of
  7. the London `trained bands', or militia.
  8.