John Wymerk and John Whitlok rob and kill a foreign merchant
John, son of John Wymerk of Torksey, Lincolnshire, taverner, came before Robert de Pynchebek, coroner of the lord king in the parts of Holland in the county of Lincolnshire, at Boston, viz on the 10th November 1382, and acknowledged that he is a robber of diverse felonies. And he says that he, together with a certain John Whitlok, chaplain, on 7 June 1381, between Deptford and Shooter's Hill in the county of Kent, feloniously robbed a certain foreign merchant, whose name he does not know, of ten marks of silver, and feloniously killed the same merchant there, whereof the said John, son of John, accuses the said John Whitlok.
John Wymerk and John Whitlok steal silver from Walter Doget
John Wymerk accuses John Whitlok, chaplain, on account that he, together with the aforesaid accuser, on Saturday 9 June [sic] 1381, at London in the tavern of Walter Doget in Eastcheap, furtively took and carried away two pieces of silver called 'shewers' of the said Walter.
