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Participant


First name	John
Last name	Waleys
Gender	Male
Domicile	Little Canfield,Dunmow Hundred,Essex
Source	TNA CP 40/485 m. 33

Incidents

ID	Summary	Description	Location	Role	Charges	Comments on role	View incident
3727	Attack on the close and houses of Richard de Northampton at Little Canfield.	Attack on the close and houses of Richard de Northampton at Little Canfield. Goods worth £40 and charters, deeds and other documents taken and carried away.	Little Canfield,Dunmow Hundred,Essex	Accused			View Incident page

Biographical Information

Date	Location	Info	Source	Comment	Image
02/07/1347	Great Canfield,Dunmow Hundred,Essex	John Waleys is amerced 3d for obstruction the road leading from 'Thorp to the market in Donemowe'.	ERO, D/DMw M1	It is not clear if this John Waleys is the future rebel. If he was he must have been in his 50s or older in 1381. Also, a John Waleys appears in the court rolls of neighbouring Little Canfield in the early 1400s.
28/07/1351	Great Canfield,Dunmow Hundred,Essex	John son of William Waleys shows a deed as proof that he bought a tenement [details faded] with pertinents for which he has to pay socage (rent payment and other non-military services). He swears fealty.	ERO, D/DMw M1	It is not clear if he is the future rebel.
28/07/1351	Great Canfield,Dunmow Hundred,Essex	John Waleys amerced 12d for trespass with his beasts in the lord's pasture; the hayward stands surety.	ERO, D/DMw M1
23/04/1405	Little Canfield,Dunmow Hundred,Essex	John Waleys one of 11 chief pledges.	ERO, D/DMg M29	Pre 1400 courts of Little Canfield have not survived.
23/04/1405	Little Canfield,Dunmow Hundred,Essex	John Waleys comes and acknowledges that he holds of the lord a messuage, 11 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, formerly of Margaret Frost, for which he owes homage, fealty and suit of court; rent is 4d rent per year Michaelmas, Purification and Pentecost. He also acknowledges that he holds by right of his wife a messuage and 4 acres of land, formerly of Robert Colb, for which he owes homage, fealty, suit of court and services of 4s a year at the aforesaid terms plus 2 capons at Christmas. John also holds a messuage and 6 acres of free land formerly of Philip Waryn for which he owes homage, fealty, suit of court and services of 2s 9d at the aforesaid terms and 2 capons at Christmas. He also holds a croft of land ('croftum terre'; smallholding) containing 3 acres formerly of John Zeward for homage, fealty, suit of court and services of 2s at the aforesaid terms. And one 'furc'(?) in the pightel of the lord namely in 8 acres of meadow to turn, to stack and to carry the hay. And one boon-work for the lord for of 1 man for 1 day and making a hedge (or fence) called 'Wodeshege' from the vigil of Epiphany until the ninth hour (noon).	ERO, D/DMg M29	Waleys held a considerable amount of free and unfree land.

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