Attack on the Abbot of St Osyth (Essex) by Robert Parlement and documents burnt.
Essex. Robert Parlement was attached to respond to the Abbot of St Osyth along with William Swalwe of Brightlingsea, John Dyere and John Fullere od St Osyth, glover, on a plea that with force and arms he broke the close and houses of the same Abbot at St Osyth. And the same Abbot by John Hulton his attorney complains that the same Robert on Sunday 16th June 1381 with force and arms, namely swords, sticks etc, broke the close and houses of the same Abbot at St Osyth and assaulted him, and insulted, wounded and imprisoned him for the next three days and maltreated him, and detained him in prison unless he wished to make a fine for 20 marks with the aforesaid Robert, and burnt charters concerning how various tenants held their land, all court rolls of the manor of St Osyth, estreats where amercements had not yet been levied, and other documents, and he took and carried away goods and chattels, namely, pans, woollen and linen cloths, vessels of brass, lead, wood, pewter and maple, pieces of silver, and threshed grain and barley worth £20, and assaulted the servants of the said Abbot, namely John Ramboyle, parker, and William Cokeyn, his rent collector, and insulted, wounded and maltreated them, so that the same Abbot lost them for a long time, namely for a quarter of a year, and other injuries etc against the king's peace, so that he suffered damages to the value of £1000.
