John Shether and others rise up with Richard Leycester and aid in his crimes
Details
Also John Bakere and his associates say that John Shether, Elias Glovere, John Dashe, skinner, John Tylneye, wright, John Redor, Thomas Litster, Richard Swan and John Milner above named, were principal insurgents with Richard Leycester and John Buk who first rose up and with other felons feloniously broke open the prison of lord Thomas Bishop of Ely and led out the king's prisoners therein, burnt the Bishop's books and likewise were accomplices in the killing of Edmund de Walsingham, justice of the peace, and feloniously killed him.
Location
Ely,Cambridgeshire
Type
Arson: burning of documents,Homicide: beheading,Breach of prison
