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Incident


Id	2639
Short Description	Confession of John Cote re. night of 30 September 1381
Details	(Flaherty, 1861, item III). John Cote confessed that on night of 30 September 1381 he and Hardyng and 25 others, with other unknown malefactors congregated at Boughton Hegh near Melkhous and made insurrection, in that they plotted to force the king to confirm all liberties and pardons lately demanded at Mile End, on pain of death. He acknowledged that strangers from the north had related that John Duke of Lancaster had made all his natives free, and this being so, the aforesaid malefactors plotted to make him king. Cote became approver, and appealed the aforesaid malefactors of this felony and treason.
Date of incident (or "date from" if range)	30/09/1381
Location	Boughton Mount,Kent
Type	Warlike array and insurrection,Treason: plotting against the King and his subjects
Source	TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2
Comments	Boughton Hegh near Melkhous = Boughton Mount, part of Boughton Montelsea: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol5/pp336-345

Victims

None found

Accused

First Name	Last Name	Role	Comments	Sources	View participant page
Philip	Apoldre	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
Richard	Barbour	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
Thomas	Bordefeld	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Brown	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
Thomas	Bryght	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Crotehole	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
Robert	Crotehole	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
Michael	Deggessell	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
William	Delton	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
Thomas	Hardyng	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Hosyere	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Iryssh	Accused	First name missing in Cote's confession - assumed to be John Iryssh mentioned in the presentment.	TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Munde	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
Robert	Relmestede	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
William	Reve	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Selyng	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Selyng	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
William	Shepere	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
William	Smyth	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Startout	Accused	Described as 'John Stertout, junior, of Lynton	TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
Richard	Stemyngden	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Tendelok	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Watte	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
William	Welle	Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John		Accused		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page

Other People

First Name	Last Name	Role	Comments	Sources	View participant page
John	Bellard	Mentioned		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page
John	Cote	Approver		TNA KB 27/482 rex mm. 1-2	View participant page