Roger Bakon, Geoffrey Lister et al. attack Great Yarmouth and tear up their charter
Roger Bak[oun], Geoffrey Lister, Thomas Sket, William Kibit, John Trunge, William Belsted and John Keek, leaders of various wrongdoers in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk against the king's peace, rose up [in rebellion] at the said Great Yarmouth with a great company against the said king's peace, and came on Tuesday 18th June 1381 with force and arms and in a warlike manner to Great Yarmouth and made an assault on the said royal town, and they wickedly forced the burgesses of the said town to hand over their royal charter of liberties, the which charter they at once in contempt of the lord king despoiled, cut and tore into two parts, and one part they sent to John Seynsbury, Robert Gernays, John Wraw, chaplain, William Lacy junior, Thomas ate [Tonne], Edmund Hemmyng, William Coupere and many others of Suffolk, and so all and singular aforesaid was done by the abetment, consent and support [of the said John] Seynesbury and Robert Gernays and their aforesaid associates.
