The People of 1381
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Participant

First nameWilliam
Last nameLok
GenderMale
SourceTNA CP 40/490 m. 167

Incidents

IDSummaryDescriptionLocationRoleChargesComments on roleView incident
3627Attack on the manor of the Prior of Bury St Edmunds at Harlow.Attack on the manor of the Prior of Bury St Edmunds at Harlow. Court rolls and other documents relating to the property rights of the manor burnt.Harlow,EssexAccusedView Incident page

Biographical Information

DateLocationInfoSourceCommentImage
21/02/1390Harlow,EssexAt the first court of the new abbot of Bury St Edmunds, William de Cratfield, the payment of £4 17s 8d is levied on the tenants of Harlow as recognition of his lordship. Walter Mountford and John Rogger are elected to collect 27s on behalf of the market (town), and Richard Forster and William Lok 72s 8d on behalf of 'Upland'. The tax has to be collected by Michaelmas.ERO, D/DEs M1The trespass case does not give a domicile for William Lok, but a person with the same name appears in the court rolls for Harlow.
21/02/1390Harlow,EssexJohn, son of William Lok, 'nativus'. who withdrew himself from the lord and lives with John Garveys in Melford (Suffolk) is distrained.ERO, D/DEs M1This implies that William Lok is an unfree tenant ('nativus') himself.
21/02/1390Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok one of 12 jurors.ERO, D/DEs M1
08/08/1390Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as affeerer for the court leet.ERO, D/DEs M1
08/08/1390Harlow,EssexJohn Campyon fined 6d for breaking into the house of William Lok, with the assent of John's wife, and stealing William's corn. John Stevene, fined 6d, did likewise.ERO, D/DEs M1
08/08/1390Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok and other villeins ('tenentes in bondagio') involved in a case about paying heriot (dating back to the late 1350s when William of Berland was abbot of Bury St Edmunds).ERO, D/DEs M1
08/08/1390Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok one of 20 chief pledges.ERO, D/DEs M1
08/08/1390Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as affeerer.ERO, D/DEs M1
26/11/1390Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok one of 12 jurors.ERO, D/DEs M1
26/11/1390Harlow,EssexOrder to attach John, son of William Lok, bondman of the lord, who lives in Melford with John Gerveys. William Lok one of the 4 collectors of the acknowledgement for the new lord, abbot William, are ordered to pay 9s 8d which the farmer ('firmarius') of the land withheld. ERO, D/DEs M1
26/11/1390Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok pays 1d pannage ('avesagium ') for 1 pig.ERO, D/DEs M1
18/09/1391Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as affeerer for the court leet.ERO, D/Des M1
18/09/1391Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok one of 20 chief pledges.ERO, D/DEs M1
11/11/1392Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok's son John, an unfree tenant, still lives in Melford. William Lok one of 12 jurors.ERO, D/DEs M1
21/06/1395Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as chief pledge.ERO, D/DEs M1
18/10/1395Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok one of 12 jurors.ERO, D/DEs M1
18/10/1395Harlow,EssexOrder (as several times before) to attach John, son of William Lok, who lives in Melford. ERO, D/DEs M1
28/01/1396Harlow,EssexRichard, son of William Lok surrenders into the lord's hand 6 acres of land for the benefit of William, Lok, his father; the land is to be hold by the rod at the will of the lord; William pays 10s entry fine and does fealty. William Lok also serves as affeerer.ERO, D/DEs M1
27/06/1396Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as chief pledge.ERO, D/DEs M1
27/06/1396Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as affeerer.ERO, D/DEs M1
27/06/1396Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok surrenders into the lord's hands the reversion of 6 acres of 'Moolland' [i.e. land held by rent] and 3 acres of workland ['terra operabile'; held by labour service] for the benefit of John Lok, his son; to be held after William's death by the rod at the will of the lord; John pays 18s entry fine and does fealty.ERO, D/DEs M1
26/10/1396Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as juror. Also, order (as several times before) to attach John, son of William Lok, who lives in Melford ['manens in Melford' is superscripted].ERO, D/DEs M1
26/10/1396Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as affeerer.ERO, D/DEs M1
20/03/1397Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok servers as affeerer.ERO, D/DEs M1
20/03/1397Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok surrenders into the hands of the lord 3 acres of 'Molland' [i.e. land liable for rent] for the benefit of Andrew Potter and his heirs; the land is hold by the rod at the will of the lord for rent and services. Andrew pays 4s entry fine and does fealty.ERO, D/DEs M1
04/12/1398Harlow,EssexOrder (as several times before) to attach John, son of William Lok, who lives in Melford.ERO, D/DEs M1
06/10/1399Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok one of the jurors.ERO, D/DEs M2
22/06/1400Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok on his death bed ('languens in extremis') surrenders 3 acres of land of which work is required ('terra operabilis') with a messuage called 'Wellescroft', 3 acres of land for which rent is to pay ('terra censualis') called 'Le Redene' and 3 acres of land for which rent is to pay ('terra censualis') called 'Le Longcroft' for the benefit of Richard Foster and his heirs to be held by the rod at the will of the lord; Richard pays 18s entry fine and does fealty. - The jury presents that William Lok sold William Doke a messuage and 3 acres of land for which rent is to pay and 2 acres of assart (land converted from forest to arable use) without licence. Order to seize the land.ERO, D/DEs M2It seems that William Lok has not died in June 1400 although he was described as being on his deathbed (see entry for February 1401)
08/02/1401Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok serves as juror. Superscripted above his name 'ill' ('languens').ERO, D/DEs M2
08/02/1401Harlow,EssexWilliam Lok pays 6d to have a messuage and 3 acres of land for which rent is to pay and 2 acres of assart back which he sold to to William Doke, barber, without licence. ERO, D/DEs M2

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