The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | Nicholas |
| Last name | Frompton |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Rector |
| Domicile | Bridgwater,Somerset |
| Source | TNA CPR 1381-1385 p. 270 |
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 | ||
| 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 | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 4290 | Nicholas Frompton burns the houses, goods and chattels of John Sydenham | Nicholas Frompton traitorously burnt down the houses of John Sydenham of Bridgwater at Sydenham and burnt the goods and chattels of the aforesaid John, found in the same, to the value of £100, and traitorously knocked and pulled to the ground the houses of the aforesaid John at Bridgwater. | Sydenham,Somerset; Bridgwater,Somerset | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 4291 | Nicholas Frompton destroys documents in the care of John Sydenham | Nicholas Frompton came to the house of John Sydenham in Bridgwater, and there traitorously took and burnt certain deeds and muniments concerning his inheritance and also rolls of the court of James Dandelegh, knight, and John Cole, being in the custody of the aforesaid John, and tore and pulled off the seals annexed to the same muniments. | Bridgwater,Somerset | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 4292 | Nicholas Frompton burns the house of Thomas Doffeld | Nicholas Frompton on Wednesday 20 June 1381 traitorously knocked and burnt down one house of Thomas Doffeld in Bridgwater, worth £20. | Bridgwater,Somerset | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 4293 | Nicholas Frompton burns the house of Walter Baron and beheads him | Nicholas Frompton on Wednesday 20 June 1381 came to the house of Walter Baron at 'Eschilton' and traitorously burnt the house of the said Walter to the value of 100s and also goods and chattels, as in corn and other goods, to the value of £10, and he beheaded the aforesaid Walter there traitorously. | Accused | View Incident page | |||
| 4294 | Nicholas Frompton breaks the gaol at Long Sutton and makes John Burcy behead Hugh Lanham | Nicholas Frompton, on Friday 22 June 1381 came to Ilchester, and caused a certain John Burcy, being in his house at Long Sutton, against his will to go with him, and he traitorously broke into the gaol of the lord king there, and he caused Hugh Langesutton to go with him against his will, and he traitorously broke into the gaol of the lord king there, and took Hugh Lanham [sic], indicted of felony, being in the same gaol, and traitorously caused the same Hugh to be beheaded by John Burcy against his will, in disrespect of the lord king and his crown, and he caused the head of the aforesaid Hugh to be carried by John Burcy upon a certain lance at Bridgewater, and he placed the aforesaid head, together with the head of the aforesaid Walter Baron, upon lances upon the bridge of the vill of Bridgewater in disrespect of the lord king and his crown. | Long Sutton,Somerset | Accused | 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 | Mentioned | View Incident page | ||
| 4557 | Commission to arrest Nicholas Frompton, John Blake and Thomas Ingelby | Reading Mandate to the mayor and sheriffs of London and the sheriffs of Middlesex and Somerset to arrest and imprison Nicholas Frompton, chaplain, John Blake, 'scryveyn', and Thomas Ingelby of Bruggewater [Bridgwater], indicted before Peter de Courtenay, Ivo Fitz Waryn and his fellow [justices] in the county of Somerset, of divers treasons, felonies and insurrections. | Somerset | Accused | 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 | Pardoned | View Incident page | ||
| 4595 | Pardon to Nicholas Frompton | Pardon of outlawry to the following: Nicholas Frompton, chaplain, for not appearing before the justices of the Bench to answer William, master of the hospital of St John Baptist, Briggewater [Bridgwater], touching a trespass, he having surrendered to the Flete [Fleet] prison, as appears by certificate of Robert Bealknap, chief justice. | Bridgwater,Somerset | Pardoned | View Incident page |
Biographical Information
| Date | Location | Info | Source | Comment | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15/02/1382 to 16/02/1382 | Frompton received a pardon, at the supplication of William, Archbishop of Canterbury, for all treasons and felonies committed by him during the late insurrection on 16 Feb. 1382: CPR 1381-5, p. 95. On 15 February 1382, he was pardoned of outlawry for faolure to answer William Cammel, master of the Hospital of St John Bridgwater: CPR 1381-5, p. 96. |
