John Porel with other malefactors on Sunday 16 June 1381 treasonably threw down the houses of John Clerk, Richard Stryveyn and Robert atte Chambre in St Albans, and on Saturday 15 June helped John Baron break the prison, and they took away an unknown man in the prison there and beheaded him. John Porel is led from the Marshalsea before the king's bench and produces a pardon under the general amnesty; he is released.
Thomas Longe breaks into houses and the prison in St Albans
Thomas Longe, together with other malefactors and disturbers of the lord king's peace, on Friday 21 June 1381, treacherously broke into and cast down a certain house belonging to the abbot of St Albans called 'le Thwerthouerhous' in the town of St Albans, and on Saturday 22 June he treacherously broke into and cast down the houses of Robert atte Chamber, Richard Stryveyn and John Clerk at the town of St Albans. And he treacherously broke into the prison of the abbot of St Albans in the aforesaid abbot's abbey in the town of St Albans, and seized and abducted all the prisoners who were in the same prison.
