The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | John |
| Last name | Greyston |
| Gender | Male |
| Domicile | Bottisham,Cambridgeshire |
| Source | TNA JUST 1/103 m. 1 |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
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| 3503 | John Greyston of Bottisham attends murder of Simon Sudbury and Robert de Hales | Twelve jurors say that John Greyston of Bottisham came out of the county of Kent before the disturbance in the said county and went in the counties of London and Kent to the assemblies of wrongdoers, and the same tarried until Simon archbishop of Canterrbury and Robert de Hales, prior of the Hospital [of Saint John of Jerusalem] and other lieges of the king were killed, and very many other murders and demolitions were carried out in their company, and the same John Greyston afterwards returned to Bottisham and asserted himself openly, namely on Sunday 16th June 1381. | Bottisham,Cambridgeshire; Tower Ward,London | Accused | Felony | Beheaded, goods forfeit | View Incident page |
| 3504 | John Greyston of Bottisham raises the villages of Great and Little Wilbraham, Swaffham Bulbeck and Swaffham Prior and Burwell | And that the same John, under colour of a certain protection of the lord king concerning the peace had deliverance of his goods in the king's chancery made to him, and on that day in the aforesaid year went from the village of Bottisham with the aforesaid protection displayed as a sign in his hand to the villages of Great and Little Wilbraham, Swaffham Bulbeck and Swaffham Prior and Burwell and elsewhere in the aforesaid county saying that he had full power from the king to assemble and raise the people of those villages in the destruction of traitors and other men named, warning those in the aforesaid villages under penalty of the burning of their houses and beheading that they should rise up with him, and then thus falsely and treacherously raised up many men, in prejudice of the lord king and disturbance of the aforesaid villages. | Swaffham Bulbeck,Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham,Cambridgeshire; Burwell,Cambridgeshire; Bottisham,Cambridgeshire; Great Wilbraham,Cambridgeshire; Swaffham Prior,Cambridgeshire | Accused | Felony | Beheaded, goods forfeit | View Incident page |
| 3505 | John Greyston of Bottisham threatens William Magrete and his neighbours | [The jurors] also say that the same John on the aforesaid day went with his assembly, arrayed with force and arms, to the house of William Magrete at Bottisham to throw down his house and buildings and those of his neighbours, unless they gave to him various sums of money in order to have their peace, the which he received from the hands of the neighbours feloniously and against the peace. And furthermore they say that he was a common leader of robbers and rebel throughout the whole of the time of the aforesaid uprising. | Bottisham,Cambridgeshire | Accused | Felony | Beheaded, goods forfeit | View Incident page |
