John Staumford threatens Thomas Cavell and John Topclyve
John Staumford, saddler of London, was a common leader and notorious assembler and wrongdoer in knocking down and burning the house of neighbours, and he threatened Thomas Cavell and John Topclyve and other loyal subjects of the lord king in the county of Cambridgshire, in such a way that they did not dare to stay in their own houses, and he said that he has a commission of the lord king in a certain box to destroy traitors of the lord king and to do several other things at Melbourn, on Saturday 15 June 1381.
