The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | Adam |
| Last name | Clymme |
| Gender | Male |
| Source | TNA JUST 1/103 m. 10d |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3647 | Adam Clymme breaks the close of Thomas Somenour and burns documents of the king and Bishop of Ely | 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. | Ely,Cambridgeshire | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3648 | Adam Clymme makes a proclamation ordering the beheading of officials | Further that the same Adam on Sunday and Monday next following caused to be proclaimed there that no man of law or other officer in the execution of duty should escape without beheading. | Cambridgeshire | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3649 | Adam Clymme raises the commons | Further that the same Adam the day and year aforesaid at the time of the insurrection was always wandering armed with arms displayed, bearing a standard, to assemble insurgents, commanding that no man of whatsoever condition he were, free or bond, should obey his lord to do any services or customs, under pain of beheading, otherwise than he should declare to them on behalf of the Great Fellowship. And so he traitorously took upon him royal power. [He is found guilty and hanged, and his possessions are forfeit]. | Cambridgeshire | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3650 | William Combere aids in the crimes of Adam Clymme, Richard Leycestre and John Buk and holds the causeway of Stuntney against the king's officials | William Combere, by the decision of the justices, was hanged, because it was ascertained that he was an aider, abettor and supporter of all treasons, felonies and other wrongdoings committed at the time of the insurrection by the aforesaid Adam [Clymme], Richard Leycestre and John Buk, otherwise committed or perpetrated, from whence he himself was convicted. And throughout the time of the insurrection with other strangers [...] and out of malice he held the causeway and bridge of Stuntney lest any of the King's or Bishop's ministers should pass that way. His chattels were worth 16s. 7d. | Stuntney,Cambridgeshire | Mentioned | View Incident page |
