Roger Bacon destroys the charter of Great Yarmouth
Roger Bacon, knight, a captain of various men, together with other malefactors from the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, rose up against the lord king's peace at the said Yarmouth with a great company, against the said lord king's peace, and came on Tuesday 18 June 1381 with force and arms and in a warlike manner, to the said Yarmouth. He made an attack on the king's aforesaid town, and he wickedly forced the burgesses of the same town to hand over to them the king's aforesaid charter of the liberty of the aforesaid town. Immediately this charter was handed over to them, he despoiled it, in contempt of the said lord king, cut it and broke it into two parts; of which he sent one part to John Seynesbury, Robert Garveys, John Wrawe, chaplain, William Lacy, junior, Thomas atte Tunne, Edward Hemmyng, William Cuper and many others from the county of Suffolk.
