Adam Clymme breaks the close of Thomas Somenour and burns documents of the king and Bishop of Ely
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Ely. Adam Clymme was taken as an insurgent traitorously against his allegiance, and because on Saturday 15th June 1381 he traitorously with others made insurrection at Ely, feloniously broke and entered the close of Thomas Somenour and there took and carried away divers rolls, estreats of the green wax of the lord the King and the Bishop of Ely, and other muniments touching the Court of the lord the King, and forthwith caused them to be burned there to the prejudice of the crown of the lord the King.
