Walter Clerk orders the death of Reginald de Eccles
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The jurors present that Walter Clerk, servant of the prior of Wymondham, was a chief leader and raiser [in rebellion] of the people against the peace and [who have] risen in prejudice of the king's crown, and instigated people to go to Norwich on Monday 17th June 1381, and there he ordered people to kill and behead Reginald de Eccles, and thus the same Reginald was killed and beheaded, and despoiled of his goods and chattels worth 200 marks.