John Esmond attached to answer John Sibile on a plea that he together with others on 5 August 1381 with force and arms broke his close and houses at Upware and seized goods and chattels worth £40. John Esmond appears and pleads not guilty to the plea of force and arms; with regards to the remaining trespass, he says that he came to Upware on Monday 17 June 1381 at the time of the insurrection under the coercion of John Hanchach, without doing any damage or breaking into the property of John Sibile. The parties appear in the octave of Michaelmas 13 Ric II and John Esmond claims that the jury panel selection has been influenced by John Sibile; this is found to be true and the panel annulled.
