Edmund Cook of Berkhamsted with about 40 others of the same village on Saturday 15 June 1381 went to St Albans and rode to the house of Robert atte Chaumbre and stayed on their horses while the house was thrown down. Edmund Cook was led from the Marshalsea before the king's bench by the bailiffs of the liberty of the abbot of St Albans and produced a pardon under the general amnesty; he is mainprised and released.
Date of incident (or "date from" if range)
15/06/1381
Location
St Albans,Hertfordshire
Type
Raising the commons: riding ,Trespass to land: throwing down of house
