The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | John |
| Last name | Cook |
| Gender | Male |
| Domicile | Barton,Wetherley Hundred,Cambridgeshire |
| Source | TNA C 67/29 mm. 38-25 |
| Comments | pardon dated: 17.12.1381 |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2860 | Escheator inquisition (Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire) | Unspecified acts of treason and felonies during the rising. | Cambridgeshire | Accused | John Cook received a pardon 12 December 1381 [TNA C 67/29 m. 36]. | View Incident page | |
| 3496 | Pardon for the rebels | Pardon for the rebels, granted under the terms sanctioned by parliament in November 1381 | Pardoned | View Incident page | |||
| 3531 | John Cook and John the blacksmith aid the plundering of Geoffrey Michel | [The jurors] also say that John Cook of Barton and John, blacksmith of the lord Scales were the chief leaders and wrongdoers in the aforesaid felony committed against Geoffrey Michel. | Arrington,Cambridgeshire | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3532 | John Cook plunders John Walter and Thomas Elleswurth, and leads rebels at Swavesey and Fen Drayton | Also that the same John Cook of Barton was a leader of felons, and that he with others, on Sunday 16th June 1381 feloniously broke into the close of John Walter at Croydon and seized and carried away his goods and chattels to the value of 40 s. And that the same John, on the same day, was the congregator and leader of the people who despoiled Thomas Elleswurth at Elsworth, against the king's peace. And that the same John was the insurgent of the assemblies at Swavesey and Fen Drayton, and led the said assemblies with him to Fen Stanton in the county of Huntingdonshire etc. treasonably etc. | Elsworth,Cambridgeshire; Fen Drayton,Cambridgeshire; Swavesey,Cambridgeshire; Croydon,Armingford Hundred,Cambridgeshire | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3538 | William atte Ree, William Shepherde, John Cook and John Prat break the close of John Walter | Armingford. The jurors say that William atte Ree of Steeple Morden and William Shepherde servant of Geoffery Cobbe, together with others unknown, and with John Cook of Barton, leader of felons, and John Prat servant of Geoffery Cobbe, on Monday 17th June 1381, with force and arms feloniously broke into the close of John Walter at Croydon, and seized and carried away his goods and chattels to the value of 40 s. And that the same John Prat assaulted the wife of the said John Walter, and seized the keys of his chamber, and entered it; and that he is a common malefactor. And that the said William atte Ree organised the aforesaid wrongdoers and others to burn the buildings of the said John Walter, but they were not burnt. | Croydon,Armingford Hundred,Cambridgeshire | Accused | View Incident page |
