John and Joanna Ferrour and others burn the Hospital of St John and instigate the murders of Sudbury and Hales
Details
On Friday 14 June 1381 John Ferrour of Rochester, Joanna his wife, David Calvelei, clerk, and Roger atte Wode came as the principal actors to the house of St John of Jerusalem in England and placed a fire there, and they fully burnt down the said house, and loaded and carried away two horses there with wool, worth six marks, and that the same John, David, Joan and Roger came at the Tower of London as the principal leaders and thrust violent hands firstly upon Simon, late archbishop of Canterbury, and brother Robert Hales, late prior of St John of Jerusalem in England, abovesaid, and made the aforesaid insurrections, burnings and felonies feloniously and traitorously on the aforesaid day and year, etc.
Date of incident (or "date from" if range)
14/06/1381
Location
Hospital of St John,Clerkenwell,Middlesex;Tower of London,London
Type
Arson: burning of houses,Larceny: theft of livestock,Larceny: theft of goods,Homicide: other
