The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | William |
| Last name | Camel |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Master of the Hospital of St John |
| Domicile | Bridgwater,Somerset |
| Source | TNA CP 40/483 m. 283d |
| Comments | Name supplied from: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol2/pp154-156#anchorn25 |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3733 | Petition from Richard Clevedon concerning a dispute with William Segan | The petitioner seeks to prove his petition against William Segan with his body before king and council according to the law of arms. He shows that a dispute between the commons of Bridgwater and the master of St John's hospital in Bridgwater over a vicarage was settled through the law and other means. After the great uprising in London, Frampton was provided to the vicarage, and departed thence from London after the uprising and came to the tourn at Bridgwater and mandated Segan, who came with others of the town to the master of the hospital and demanded satisfaction of these matters on pain that the master should make answer at ten of the clock the next morning. The next morning they went to the hospital and spoke with the master, and by threats made a fine with him in £200, and had quittance of a bond of £100 and took other muniments from the master to save his life. Response: [None.]. | Bridgwater,Somerset | Mentioned | View Incident page | ||
| 4100 | Master of the Hospital of St John the Baptist of Bridgwater v. John Blake, John Smythe and Richard Flecchere | The Master of the Hospital of St John the Baptist of Bridgwater complains that John Blake, John Smythe and Richard Flecchere broke his close and houses and stole livestock and other goods and chattels. They do not appear. | Bridgwater,Somerset | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 4289 | Nicholas Frompton attacks the hospital of St John the Baptist of Bridgwater | Nicholas Frompton, provisor of the church of Bridgwater, and others, on Wednesday 20 June 1381, came to the house of the hospital of St John the Baptist of Bridgwater traitorously with the standard of the lord king raised, and broke into the [said] house and made threats to William Cammel, master of the aforesaid hospital and 'conventor' of the same place, about the burning of their aforesaid houses, and also about the mutilation of their members, and he took the aforesaid master and detained him in his custody until he delivered certain deeds obligatory between the men of Bridgwater and the aforesaid master upon certain conditions to the same Nicholas. And until the same master released all his rights and profits to the rectory of his church of Bridgwater to the aforesaid Nicholas Frompton, excepting corn being in sheaves and held of the tithes of the said church. And until the same master made a fine to the same man for his delivery and for saving his life and that of his convent, for 200 marks. | Bridgwater,Somerset | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 4518 | Thomas Engilby captures William Cammel, master of the Hospital of St John, Bridgwater | Pardon to Thomas Engilby for the following crime: on Wednesday 19 June 1381 he went with Adam Brugge and others to the hospital of St John, Bruggwater [Bridgwater], broke the house and seized and detained William Cammel the master until he delivered to him certain bonds between the men of Bruggewater [Bridgwater] and the said master, released all his rights and profits to Nicholas Frompton, rector of Bruggewater [Bridgwater], tithes of hay and corn excepted, and made fine in 200 marks for the safety of himself and convent. | Bridgwater,Somerset | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 4594 | Pardon to Nicholas Frompton | Pardon of outlawry to Nicholas Frompton, chaplain, for not appearing before Robert de Bealknap and the other justices of oyer and terminer, to answer William Gammel, master of the hospital of St John Baptist, Bruggewater [Bridgwater], and parson of Bruggewater [Bridgwater], touching a trespass, he having surrendered to the Marshalsea prison, as appears by certificate of Robert Tresylian, chief justice. | Bridgwater,Somerset | Victim | View Incident page |
Biographical Information
| Date | Location | Info | Source | Comment | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/12/1379 | Bridgwater,Somerset | Brother William Cammel, master of the hospital of St John the Baptist at Bridgwater, Thomas Caundeh and brother Richard Chodesey, the same master's fellow brethren, were previously arrested by an indictment made before William de Montague, earl of Salisbury, that they, on the Monday following the feast of St Nicholas in the third year of the present lord king's reign, at the aforesaid Bridgwater, in the aforesaid hospital, of malice aforethought enclosed a certain John Ponter in a certain house called the Warderobe, within the aforesaid hospital, for the whole night, on account of which the same John died of cold. And on the next day they buried the same John, without the body being seen or called. | JUST 3/170 m. 6d |
