The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | William |
| Last name | Topclyve |
| Gender | Male |
| Domicile | Maidstone,Kent |
| Source | TNA KB 9/43 m. 12 |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2638 | Insurrection of Thomas Hardyng and others at Linton, 30 September, 1381 | (Flaherty, 1861, items I & II). Thomas Hardyng and 15 others rose at Linton on 30 September 1381, conspiring the deaths of the king, Sir Thomas Cobham, Sir William Septvans (the Sheriff), and others, and to burn Maidstone, and coerced two other men into joining them. They were apprehended on 8 October. Hardyng and nine others were tried, found guilty and sentenced to death on 15 October. One, Robert Munselowe, was found not guilty, but was detained in custody. Two others were remanded to the Tower without being charged. The trial of two others was deferred to 18 Nov, and one of these, John Cote, made a confession on 7 Oct 1381 (see Incident 2639). | Linton,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2675 | Attack on house of William Topclyve, 7 June 1381 | Stephen Hosteller of Dartford, William Hosteller servant of John Sharp of Dartford, William Thresshere and Thomas Osbarn of Strood together and separately were involved in various uprisings and assemblies at Dartford on 6th June 1381 against the king and his people, and with others unknown pulled down the house of William Topclyve at Maidstone on 7th June. And they feloniously burnt all the documents of the said William on that day against the king's peace. | Maidstone,Kent; Dartford,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2691 | Hugo Moneye steals goods from William Topclyve, 7 June 1381 | Hugo Moneye of Thurnham on 7th June 1381 went to the house of William Topclyve in Maidstone at la Mote and burgled the house and took goods and chattels worth £10. They [the jurors] say that the same Hugo is a common thief. | Maidstone,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2692 | Robert Glovere and Dierlyng de Chalk steal goods from William Topclyve, 7 June 1381 | Robert Glovere of Strood and one Dierlyng de Chalk, barber, similarly burgled the buildings of the said William on the same day, and took and carried away a hauberk, a target, a lance, a bow and two sheaves of arrows. | Maidstone,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2693 | John Modele steals and destroys goods belonging to William Topclyve, 7 June 1381 | John Modele of Rochester, chandler, went to the house of the said William on the same day and then carried away and broke certain goods and chattels belonging to him and broke wine-barrels of the said William. | Maidstone,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2694 | John Breme steals goods from William Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng, 8 June 1381 | John Breme of the county of Bedfordshire and staying in Maidstone from day to day burgled the buildings of William and Nicholas Heryng at Foots Cray on 8th June and took and carried away certain goods and chattels. | Foots Cray,Ruxley Hundred,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2695 | Andrew Poyntel and William Taborer steal goods from William Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng, 8 June 1381 | Andrew Poyntel of Maidstone and William Taborer of Maidstone on the same day burgled the buildings of the aforesaid William and Nicholas in the place aforesaid and took and carried away certain goods and chattels. | Foots Cray,Ruxley Hundred,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2696 | Thomas Newman and John servant of John Tomes steal goods from William Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng, 8 June 1381 | Thomas Newman, shoemaker, and John lately servant of John Tomes of Maidstone, shoemaker on the aforesaid day burgled the buildings of the aforesaid William and Nicholas in the place aforesaid and took and carried away certain goods and chattels. | Foots Cray,Ruxley Hundred,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2698 | Robert Cosyn steals from William Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng, 10 June 1381 | Robert Cosyn, weaver, staying with Giles Auncel of Maidstone on the aforesaid day burgled the buildings of the aforesaid William Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng in the aforementioned place. | Foots Cray,Ruxley Hundred,Kent; Maidstone,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2704 | Henry Maas and Walter Bochier burgle and tear down houses of William Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng | Henry Maas of Foots Cray and Walter Bochier of Maidstone were supporters of the wrongdoers and rose at the houses of William Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng and elsewhere and burgled and tore down their buildings against the king's peace. | Maidstone,Kent; Foots Cray,Ruxley Hundred,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2706 | Robert Bakere incites men to burgle the buildings of Wiliam Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng, 7 & 8 June 1381 | Robert Bakere of Dartford on 7th and 8th June 1381 was one of the supporters of the wrongdoers and disturbers of the king's peace and gathered together men of Maidstone to burgle the buildings of Wiliam Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng in the aforesaid locations. | Foots Cray,Ruxley Hundred,Kent; Maidstone,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2712 | Attack on property of William Topclyve at Sheppey and Linton; extortion of John Maister senior [partly illegible] | John [...] abetted by the men of Dartford burgled and tore down the buildings of William Topclyve at the Tower in Sheppey and Linton and his evil company went to the house of John Maister senior of Loddington [...] to tear down the buildings of the said John because he had from the said John sixteen acres of land which for 30 [...] William Senyng gave to the said John on account of the marriage of the said Robert with his daughter. The said John [...] to said Robert and [...] the evil company to stay in his house for fear of death to damage of one hundred shillings. | Linton,Kent; Isle of Sheppey,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2714 | True bill re. crimes against William Topclyve, Nicholas Heryng and Thomas Trevet by John Gybbeville and Robert Cosyn, 6-14 June 1381 | Inquisition on behalf of the king into whether John Gybbeville of Maidstone and Robert Cosyn of the same rose with force and arms and sustained wrongdoers against the king and his people in the insurrection and broke into the houses of William Topclyve in the parish of Maidstone and Nicholas Heryng and others in North Cray, and continued in their wickedness to rise up from 6th until the 14th June 1381. And whether the same Robert with other wrongdoers on 8th June took Thomas Trevet, knight, in East Malling, and carried him to West Malling and made him swear obedience to them against his will. | Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2716 | John Houtekyn breaks into houses of William Topclyve and NIcholas Heryng | John Houtekyn of Malling broke into the houses of William Topclyve and Nicholas Heryng, and is a common disturber of the peace. | Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2722 | Alan Tresshere damages house of William Topclyve | The same Alan made much damage to the house of William Topclyve. | Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2725 | John Man junior attacks house of William Topclyve, 7 June 1381 | The jurors say that John Man of Burham junior rose up against the king and his people and on the 7th of June 1381 went against the peace to the house of William Topclyve and tore apart the said house in the same way as others. | North Cray,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2731 | Thomas Crowe crushes the house of William Topclyve with boulders | Thomas Crowe of Snodland went to the house of William Topclyve on the aforesaid day [...] dragging large boulders on to the house of the said William causing it to be crushed, against the peace. | Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2747 | John Clerk tears down house of William Topclyve, 7 June 1381 | They [the jurors] say that John Clerk of Thong on 7th June 1381 with others unknown feloniously tore down the house of William Topclyve at Maidstone. | Maidstone,Kent | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 2799 | William Topclyve v Richard Ismonger | Kent - William Topclyve de Maydestane himself appears against Richard Ismonger de Billeford on a plea that with force and arms he broke the close and houses of the said William at Shoford and took and carried away goods and chattels worth £20 and £20 in money, and took and burnt charters, writings, rolls and other muniments. Sheriff had been ordered to arrest him. Returns that he is not found. Order to arrest him is repeated as before, to be in CP in octave of S. Michael. Sheriff does not return writ. Order repeated, as many times previously, to be in CP in octave of Hilary. | La Mote,Maidstone,Kent | Victim | View Incident page |
Biographical Information
| Date | Location | Info | Source | Comment | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14/06/1381 to 24/10/1381 | The temporalities of the Archbishopric of Canterbury were in the King's hands during this period following Sudbury's death. William Topclyve, William Tydecombe, John Francis and others had custody of the temporalities by the King's commission during that period. | Yearbook 11 Richard II 1387-88, ed. I. Thornley, Ames Foundation, 1937, p. 50 | |||
| 22/02/1382 | Topclyve member of commission to enquire touching waste in the manors of the Archbishopric while its temporalities were in the King's hands' | CPR 1381-5 p. 134 | |||
| 18/06/1382 | William Topclyve received, by the Archbishop's supplication, licence to crenellate and fortify a small 'place' called 'Shoford' in the parish of Maidstone, lately levelled by the insurgents | CPR 1381-5 p. 132 | |||
| 10/07/1382 | William Topclyve, John Francis and William Tydecombe commissioned at the supplication of the Archbishop of Canterbury to compel all the Archbishop's tenants to renew all rentals destroyed in the late insurrection | CPR 1381-5 p. 194 | |||
| A case was brought against Topclyve in 1388 by William Lye, cllerk, as Treasurer of William Courtnay, Archbishop of Canterbury, for failure to render reasonable account of the time when he was receiver of moneys from 30 Nov 1382-29 Sept 1384. The case gives a very detailed report by Toplclyve of moneys received by him. | Yearbook 11 Richard II 1387-88, ed. I. Thornley, Ames Foundation, 1937, pp. 43-53 | ||||
| Topclyve was steward of the liberty of the Archbishop of Canterbury for both Simon Sudbury and William Courtenay | Yearbook 11 Richard II 1387-88, ed. I. Thornley, Ames Foundation, 1937, pp. 46, 52. |
