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Participant


First name	Richard
Last name prefix	de
Last name	Leycestre
Gender	Male
Domicile	Ely,Cambridgeshire
Source	TNA JUST 1/103 m. 10

Incidents

ID	Summary	Description	Location	Role	Charges	Comments on role	View incident
3639	Richard de Leycestre leads insurrection in Ely	Inquisition taken there on the said Thursday by the oath of John Baker, John Peyntor, Thomas Pilrym, William Craunfeld, John Beneyt, Robert Beneyt, William Wygenhal, Benedict Russell, John Wetynge, Richard Sopere, William Wurmegeye and John Queye, who say on their oath that Richard de Leycestre of Ely on Saturday 15th June 1381, of his own will made insurrection, gathering to himself John Buk of Ely and many other evildoers unknown, and went through the whole town of Ely, commanding that all men, of whatsoever estate, should make insurrection and go with him to destroy divers traitors whom he would name to them on behalf of the lord King Richard and the faithful commons; and hereupon he made divers proclamations seditiously and to the prejudice of the lord the King, whereby the people of the same town of Ely and other townships of the isle aforesaid were greatly disturbed and injured.	Ely,Cambridgeshire	Accused			View Incident page
3640	Richard de Leycestre orders others to come with him to the monastery of Ely	[The jurors] also say that the same Richard [de Leycestre] on the Sunday following commanded John Shethere of Ely, Elias Glovere, John Dassh, skinner, John Tylneye, wright, and John Redere of Ely, Thomas Litstere of Ely, Richard Swonn of Ely and John Milnere of Ely and many others of the commons there assembled, that they should go with him to the monastery of Ely to stand with him, while he, in the pulpit of the same monastery, should declare to them and all others the matters to be performed on behalf of King Richard and the commons against traitors and other disloyal men, and this under pain of the burning of their houses and the taking off of their heads; and so the same Richard [de Leycestre] was a notorious leader and assembler feloniously, and committed all the aforesaid acts to the prejudice of the crown of the lord the King.	Ely Abbey,Ely,Cambridgeshire	Accused			View Incident page
3642	Richard de Leycestre breaks into the prison of the Bishop of Ely	[The jurors] also say that the same Richard on Monday next following at Ely, as principal leader and insurgent, with the aforesaid men above named and many others unknown of his fellowship, feloniously broke the prison of the lord Bishop of Ely at Ely and feloniously led away divers felons there imprisoned.	Ely,Cambridgeshire	Accused			View Incident page
3643	Richard de Leycestre condemns Edmund de Walsyngham to death by beheading	And that the same Richard on the said Monday at Ely feloniously adjudged to death Edmund de Walsyngham, one of the justices of the peace of the lord the King in the county of Cambridge, whereby the said Edmund was then feloniously beheaded and his head set on the pillory there, the same being a pernicious example. And that the same Richard was the principal commander and leader in all the felonies, seditions and other misdeeds committed within the isle at the time aforesaid, etc.	Ely,Cambridgeshire	Accused			View Incident page
3644	John Buk aids Richard de Leycestre in his crimes	Further the aforesaid jurors say that John Buk of Ely was a fellow of the aforesaid Richard Leycestre all the time of the insurrection and tumult at Ely in the accomplishing of all the felonies, treasons and misdeeds, whereof the said Richard was indicted. And specially that the same John, of his malice, at the time when Edmund de Walsyngham was adjudged to death, feloniously came to him and feloniously snatched a purse of Edmund attached to his tunic containing 42½d., and violently assaulted the said Edmund, dragging him to the place of his beheading, and carried away the said money except 12d. thereof which he gave to John Deye of Willingham, who there feloniously beheaded Edmund, for his labour. [He confesses to committing these acts under influence of the devil, is found guilty and hanged, and his possessions are forfeit.]	Ely,Cambridgeshire	Accused			View Incident page
3693	Exchequer case concerning the property of Richard Leicestre, thought to be in the hands of the Prior of Spinney	The accounts of Ralph Wykes, escheator, show that he did not answer to the king for £4 11 s. for the value of 14 bullocks belonging to Richard Leicestre of Ely, traitor, who rose up on 14 June 1381 and was hanged. A previous inquiry found the bullocks to be in the hands of the Prior of Spinney, but he disputes this, saying that 5 of the bullocks had been killed by Leicestre, and that he released the other 9 to Wykes. Ralph Wykes is ordered to appear; he does not come, and is distrained of his lands.	Cambridgeshire	Accused			View Incident page

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