Id | 3504 |
Short Description | John Greyston of Bottisham raises the villages of Great and Little Wilbraham, Swaffham Bulbeck and Swaffham Prior and Burwell |
Details | And that the same John, under colour of a certain protection of the lord king concerning the peace had deliverance of his goods in the king's chancery made to him, and on that day in the aforesaid year went from the village of Bottisham with the aforesaid protection displayed as a sign in his hand to the villages of Great and Little Wilbraham, Swaffham Bulbeck and Swaffham Prior and Burwell and elsewhere in the aforesaid county saying that he had full power from the king to assemble and raise the people of those villages in the destruction of traitors and other men named, warning those in the aforesaid villages under penalty of the burning of their houses and beheading that they should rise up with him, and then thus falsely and treacherously raised up many men, in prejudice of the lord king and disturbance of the aforesaid villages. |
Location | Swaffham Prior,Cambridgeshire;Swaffham Bulbeck,Cambridgeshire;Little Wilbraham,Cambridgeshire;Great Wilbraham,Cambridgeshire;Burwell,Cambridgeshire;Bottisham,Cambridgeshire |
Type | Trespass to person: threats,Raising the commons: forcing others to join company |
Source | TNA JUST 1/103 m. 1 |
First Name | Last Name | Role | Comments | Sources | View participant page |
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John | Greyston | Accused | Beheaded, goods forfeit | TNA JUST 1/103 m. 1 | View participant page |