Attack on property of William prior of Bodmin by Richard Eir and others
Details
Richard Eyr, William Eyr, his brother, and Roger Trenwynnard, perceiving and knowing that the aforesaid treasons, uprisings, beheadings and homicides had been made and traitorously perpetrated by the community of the counties of Essex and Kent against the lord king, having assembled to themselves 300 armed men in comfort of the aforesaid traitors, rose up armed to behead and kill diverse men from the subjects of the lord king, on Saturday 8 June 1381, feloniously and traitorously, by force and arms, against the peace came to the water of William, prior of Bodmin, of Dunmere, entered and broke and knocked down the weir in the separate water of the same prior, and broke and knocked down one house of the same prior being upon his separate land, traitorously as enemies of the lord king and his realm of England.
Date of incident (or "date from" if range)
08/06/1381
Location
Dunmere,Cornwall
Type
Warlike array and insurrection,Trespass to land: forcible entry of close and houses,Trespass to land: throwing down of house
