Also; the foresaid Thomas de Berghestede and Robert Prat, together with one John Wyse, of Mepeham, made the people
of Chatham and Gillingham feloniously rise. Also, the said Robert Prat harbours the said Thomas Berghestede and his
wife and sons, and comforts and maintains him in his ..... wicked doings and felonies. And the foresaid Thomas Berghestede and Robert Prat have the head of ... so that all the people of Gillingham and Chatham ... the said Thomas Berghestede and Robert ....
Thomas Berghestode and John Wyse threaten the people of Gillingham and steal documents from William and Thomas de Bedemanton, 7-9 June 1381
Thomas Berghestode of Gillingham and John Wyse of the parish of Meopham were said to be amongst the first of the people of Gillingham to rise and to have threatened the people that unless they came with them they would behead them and break their houses on 7th June 1381, and afterwards on 9th June they did the same. And also on the 9th June the said Thomas and John entered the chambers of William and Thomas de Bedemanton and took and carried away charters and other muniments.
