Robert Tavell, William Cobbe and John Noble plunder the Prior of St John and others
Twelve jurors say upon their oath that Robert Tavell, William Cobbe of Gazeley and John son of Thomas Noble of Freckenham, along with many others unknown, went to Chippenham on Saturday 15th June 1381 and feloniously took goods and chattels belonging to the Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England, namely, cows, cloth, linen and wool and other utensils worth £100, and carried them away. And furthermore that the aforesaid Robert and others named above on the same day went to Soham and there they feloniously took £4 in silver from Richard Macwurth. And that on the same day of the aforesaid felonies they feloniously took £4 in silver from Augustus Kellynge and Gilbert Helgeye at Isleham. And that they are common and notorious wrongdoers.
