Roger Bakon, Geoffrey Lyster et al attack Great Yarmouth and tear up its charter
Roger Bakon, knight, Geoffrey Lyster, William Kybit, John Tronch, Thomas Sket and John [...] an assembly of the people with force and arms against the king's peace came to the town of Great Yarmouth on Tuesday 18th June 1381 and assaulted the burgesses of that town, and made them hand over their royal charter of liberties [...] in contempt of the lord king wickedly broke it into two parts, and sent one part of the said charter to John Wrawe, chaplain, Robert Garneys, [...] [Edmund] Hemmyng, John Seynesbyry and others of the county of Suffolk, thus by the abetment and counsel of the said John Wrawe [...] and his aforesaid [associates] all the aforesaid things were done.
