John Hanchach tears down the houses of the Prior of St John, Duxford, and other crimes
And the jurors say that John Hanchauch was a ringleader of wrongdoers, and that with his company and a powerful assembly of unknown men on Saturday 15th June 1381 by night he tore down the houses of the Prior of the Hospital of St John in Duxford, and found there various goods and chattels worth £20 belonging to Richard Masterman, tenant-at-farm, and feloniously took and carried them away, to the damage of the king. And by various inquisitions held in various hundreds it is ascertained that the same John Hanchauch was at all times during the uprising riding with the might of an armed assembly with many followers, and that he was commander and leader at the manors of Thomas Haselden, William Bateman, the Hospital of Shingay, Edward Walsyngham, Thomas Torell, Roger Harlaston and John Blauncpayn in Cambridge, and [perpetrated] other thefts and destruction and burning of houses earlier with the said company, in prejudice of the king and the great disturbance of the people.
