John Staunford threatens Thomas Cavell and John Topclyve, and carries a false commission from the king
Details
Staine, Wetherley, Armingford. The juries of the aforesaid hundreds say that John Staunford, saddler, of London, was a common leader and notorious congregator of wrongdoers in the pulling down and burning of the houses of neighbours, and threatened Thomas Cavell, John Topclyve, and other faithful men of the king in the county of Cambridgeshire, so that they dared not remain in their own houses. And he said that he had a commission from the king in a certain chest to destroy the traitors of the king and to do many other things. And the same John is indicted for the same crimes by the aforesaid hundred of Wetherley.
Location
Cambridgeshire
Type
Raising the commons: proclamations,Trespass to person: threats
