The People of 1381
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| Type | Indictment by jury |
| Unique Identifying Text | TNA KB 27/488 rex mm. 6-6 ter |
| Archive name | The National Archives (London) |
| County | London |
| Published source (may be more than one) | Inquisition of November 20, 1382 edited by Reville, pp. 190-99, translated by Dobson, pp. 213-220; inquisition of November 4, 1382 edited by Bertie Wilkinson, Speculum, 1940, pp. 32-35, translated by Dobson, pp. 220-26 |
| Text in Original Language | London': Memorandum quod Michael del Pole cancellarius domini Regis per manus suas proprias liberavit hic in curia isto eodem termino quoddam recordum in hec verba - Ricardus dei gratia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie vicecomitibus London' salutem. Cum quidam ligei nostri civitatis predicte et aliunde de eo quod ipsi quosdam communes comitat' Kanc' et Essex' qui nuper in diversis magnis conventiculis se congregarunt et levaverunt contra fidem et ligeanciam suam nobis debitas cum vexillis armis nostris deputis et displicatis civitatem nostram predictam et suburbia eiusdem intrare et ibidem diversa prodiciones murdra interfecciones et hominum decapitaciones ac domorum Arsuras et prostraciones necnon alia mala intollerabilia et hactenus inaudita per ipsos communes sic levatos fieri et perpetrari excitaverunt rettati sint et notorie diffamati ut Accepimus. Nos si ita est in hac parte fieri volentes quod est iustum et super premissis ex hac causa per vos plenius certiorari vobis precipimus quod per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum de balliva vestra per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit diligenter inquiratis per quos vel quem prefati communes sic ut predicitur levati ad dictam civitatem et suburbia eiusdem in forma predicta intrand' et premissa mala et incommoda ut predictum est facta et perpetrata ibidem faciend' excitati fuerunt et ubi quando qualiter et quo modo et insuper quis vel qui dilectum et fidelem nostrum Willelmum Walleworth tunc maiorem civitatis nostre predicte ac alios fideles nostros quominus ipsi portas eiusdem civitatis claudere et pontem eiusdem levare et eandem civitatem contra eosdem communes ut ingressum in eandum non habuissent defendere potuerunt et eisdem communibus in hac parte resistere impedi... vel impediverunt ut dicitur quo casu qualiter et quo modo Ac eciam quis vel qui eosdem communes ipsam civitatem et suburbia eiusdem ex eorum malicia sciens vel scientes nequiter et maliciose intrare permisit vel permiserunt quo casu qualiter et quo modo et de premissis omnibus et singulis ac articulis et circumstancijs premissa omnia et singula qualitercumque concernentibus plenius veritatem Et inquisiciones inde distincte et aperte factas nobis in cancellariam nostram sub sigillis vestris et sigillis eorum per quos facte fuerint sine dilacione mittatis et hoc breve. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium xxx die Octobris Anno regni nostri sexto - Indictamenta virtute brevis predicti capta sequitur in hec verba - Inquisitio capta coram Johanne Sely et Adam Baunne vicecomitibus London' virtute eiusdem brevis domini Regis eisdem vicecomitibus directi ad inquirend' per quos vel quem communes Kanc' et Essex' qui nuper in diversis magnis conventiculis congregate levati contra fidem et legeanceam suam domino Regi debitas ad civitatem London' et suburbia eiusdem civitate cum vexillis de armis domini regis deput' et displicat' intrand' et ibidem diversa prodiciones murdra interfecciones et hominum decapitaciones ac domorum arsuras et prostrations necnon alia malefacta intollerabilia et hactenus mandita per Ipsos communes sic levatos facta et perpetrata ibidem faciend' excitati fuerunt et ubi quando qualiter et quo modo et insuper quis vel qui Willelmum Walleworth tucn maiorem civitatis predicte et alios quo minus ipsi portas eiusdem civitatis claudere etpontem eiusdem civitatis levare et eandem civitatem contra eosdem communes ut ingressum ... eadem non habuissent defendere potuerunt et eisdem communibus in hac parte resistere impediunt vel impediverunt quo casu qualiter et quo modo Ac eciam quis vel qui eosdem communes ipsam civitatem et suburbia eiusdem ex eorum malicia sciens vel scientes nequiter et maliciose intrare permisit vel permiserunt quo casu qualiter et quo modo per sacramentum Willelmi Tyngewyk Roberti Fraunceys Roberti Pipot Johannis Hydyngham Johannis Wylby Johannis Wyllardby Johannis Martham Johannis Cole Thome Depham Thome Kynesbrugge Johannis Bathe et Johannis Dancastre Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod tempore male insurrectionis et rebellionis communium Kanc' et Essex' videlicet Anno regni regis supradicti quarto Willelmus Walleworth tunc maior civitatis London' inde certioratus toto suo animo eis resistere et ingressum civitatis negare ac civitatem in pace conservare sategens cum Avisiamento communis consilii civitatis predicte ordinavit Johannem Horn Adam Carhylle et Johannem Fresch cives et Aldermannos civitatis predicte nuncios et legalos ad obviandum eisdem populis sic congregatis contra fidem et ligeanceam suam dicto domino Regi debitas et eisdem nunciis sive legatis dedit specialiter in mandatis quod ipsi eundem populum malivolum tractarent et ex parte Regis et tocius civitatis eis dicerent quod ipsi ad civitatem non appropinquarent in affraiamentum et perturbacionem Regis aliorum dominorum et dominarum et civitatis predicte set quod ipsi dicto domino Regi in omnibus obedirent et reverenciam preberent ut deberent qui vero Johannes Adam et Johannes nuncium suum non dixerunt prout in mandatis habuerunt et dicunt quod predictus Johannes Horn ex Assensu predicti Ade non obstante maioris sui mandato supradicto excedens suum nuncium ac mandatum cum principalibus insurrectoribus conspiravit et predictum populum malefîcum pulcris sermonibus versus dictam civitatem vertere fecit ubi prius in proposito fuerunt ad hospicia sua revertendi et eisdem maleficis et principalibus Insurrectoribus dixit excitando et procurando quod ad civitatem cum turmis suis venirent asserens quod tota civitas London' fuit in eodem proposito sicut et ipsi fuerunt et quod ipsi deberent in eadem civitate ita amicabiliter esse recepti sicut pater cum filio et amicus cum amico. Qui quidem malefactores et rebelles causa nuncij predicti per predictos Johannem Horn Adam Carlylle et Johannem Fresch eis sic false et male facti hillares devenerunt et ob hoc tam obstinati in suis malefactis fuerunt quod fines civitatis statim appropinquaverunt videlicet die mercurii in vigilia festi corporis Christ Anno quarto supradicto et carcerem domini Regis vocatum le Marchalsye Fregerunt. Et eadem nocte predictus Johannes Horn duxit secum London' plures principales insurrectores et aliorum malefactorum ductores videlicet Thomam Hawkes Willelmum Newman Johannem Sterlyng et alios qui ex hoc postea convicti judicium mortis susceperunt et cum eo tota illa nocte in hospicium suum recepti fuerunt felonice et proditorie. Et idem Johannes Horn eadem nocte dixit maiori civitatis predicte quod ipsi Insurrectores venirent London' unde maiori ex hoc maxime perturbato idem Johannes Horn sibi [sic] dixit et manucepit quod sub periculo capitis sui nullum dampnum in civitate nec in eius fînibus facerent Mane autem facto in festo corporis Christi Anno supradicto predictus Johannes Horn venit ad quendam Johannem Marchaunt unum clericorum civitatis predicte dicens eidem clerico verba sequencia vel similia. Maior precepit quod tu deberes michi querere unum standardum de armis domini regis. Qui quidem clericus tal' standardum post longum scrutineum eidem Johanni Horn deliberavit ipso clerico omnino inscio quid idem Johannes Horn inde faceret et idem Johannes Horn predictum standardum in duas partes divisit equales quarum unam partem ligavit cuidam lancie et aliam partem dedit garcioni suo custodiendam et sic cum tali vexillo displicato equitavit usque ad Blakeheth per se nullum onus nuncij sive legacionis illo die habens set solomodo ad complendum promissa eisdem malefactoribus per ipsum prius facta et ad provocandum eos toto visu suo ad civitatem venire felonice et proditorie sciens expresse perturbacionem et magnum afflictum domino Regi alijs magnatibus et civitatis predicte civibus in adventu predictorum insurrectorum et domini Regis proditorum adesse Et dicunt quod eidem Johanni Horn sic equitando versus le Blakeheth Appropinquabat quidam Johannes Blyton qui missus fuit per dominum Regem et consilium suum eisdem malefactoribus ut ad civitatem non Appropinquarent et dixit eidem Johanni Horn ista verba vel similia. Domine vellem scire nuncium vestrum si aliquod habetis ex parte civitatis istis Insurrectoribus dicendum Ita quod nuncium meum quod habeo ex parte domini Regis eisdem et nuncium vestrum quod habetis ex parte civitatis poterunt concordare. qui statim iracundo vultu eum aspiciens dixit nolo de nuncio tuo nec tu debes de meo aliquid intromittere. ego dicam eis quod mihi placet et dic tu sicut tibi placet Et postquam predictus nuncius Regis cito equitando eisdem rebellibus ex parte Regis suum nuncium exposuisset. predictus Johannes Horn venit et contrariando nuncium domini Regis predictum in contemptum eiusdem domini Regis felonice false et proditorie contra ligeanceam suam dixit eisdem venite London' quia unanimes facti sumus amici et parati facere vobiscum que preposuistis et in omnibus que vobis necessaria sunt favorem et obsequium prestare sciens regis [photo 363] voluntatem et maioris sui mandatum suis dictis contraria fore. Et sic per verba premissa excitacionem et procuracionem illius Johannis Horn habentis de suis coniva consilio et conspiracione precogitates Walterum Sybyle predicti malefactores et domini Regis proditores sic ut supradicitur coniuncti cum Waltero Tyler Alano Thredre Willelmo Hawk Johanne Stakpull principalibus ductoribus et aliis Regis proditoribus venerunt London' currendo et clamando per vicos civitatis ad Savoye Ad Savoye et sic per predictum Johannem Horn et Walterum Sybyle predicti felones et proditores domini Regis introducti fuerunt in civitatem / ob quam causam carcer domini Regis de Newgate fracta fuit Arsiones tenementorum prostraciones domorum decapitaciones Archiepiscopi et aliorum facta fuerunt et alia plura mala prius inaudita perpetrata per ipsos tunc fuerunt / Et dicunt quod predictus Johannes Horn cum eisdem turmis malis et omnino maledictis deambulans per vicos civitatis quesivit si aliquis vellet monstrare et sibi proponere aliquam Injuriam sibi factam promittens eis festinam justiciam per ipsum et suos inde faciendam ob quod venit quedam Matilla Toky coram Johanne Horn conquerendo versus Ricardum Toky Grossarium de eo quod idem Ricardus injuste detinebat rectam hereditatem ipsius Matille ut ipsa tunc dixit Super quo predictus Johannes Horn in magna societate Rybaldorum et rebellium predictorum cum eadem Matilla accessit ad quoddam tenementum predicti Ricardi Toky in Lumbardstrete London' et ibidem idem Johannes Horn capiens super se regalem potestatem dedit judicium aperte quod predicta Matilla predictum tenementum haberet et adjudicavit eidem Matille habenda omnia bona et catalla in eodem tenemento inventa pro dampnis suis et sic fecit super predictum Ricardum Toky disseisinam et predacionem felonice et contra pacem et legem domini Regis in enervacionem regie corone et in quantum in ipso fuit Adnullacionem regie dignitatis ac legis terre ac pacis regis et regni destruccionem manifestam Ac eciam dicunt quod idem Johannes Horn cum predictis turmis malis et filijs iniquitatis quamplures de dicta civitate magnis mynis vite et membrorum se redimere coegit inter quos fecit felonice quemdam Robertum Norton Taillour facere finem et redempcionem cuidam Johanni Pecche Fisshmonger de decem libris sterlingorum pro quibus bene et fideliter solvendis idem Robertus Norton plura iocalia posuit in vadium Et si idem Robertus taliter non fecisset predictus Johannes Horn juravit quod eundem Robertum turmis suis traderet decapitandum et sic idem Johannes Horn fuit unus principalium Insurrectorum contra Regem et principalis eorum malorum consiliator ita ut per ipsum et per predictum Walterum Sybyle felonice et proditorie malefactores prenominati excitati et procurati fuerunt veniendi London' et in eandem civitatem per ipsum et per predictum Walterum Sybyle proditorie introducti fuerunt per quod omnia mala predicta in dicta civitate et in cunctis locis eidem adjacentibus facta fuerunt et perpetrata non obstante quod ijdem Walterus Sybyle et Johannes Horn de officio suo Aldermanrie ad pacem domini Regis ibidem conservandam fuerunt specialius per sacramentum suum astricti. Item dicunt predicti jurati super sacramentum suum quod ubi predictus Willelmus Walleworth maior cum deliberacione predicti communis consilij civitatis predicte ordinavit ut omnes Aldermanni eiusdem civitatis ad custodiendum civitatem. deberent esse parati in armis cum alijs concivibus suis ad resistendum malefactoribus supradictis et ad negandum eis ingressum et ad defendendum tam portas quam alios ingressus civitatis predicte predictus Walterus Sybyle tunc Aldermannus sciens et videns predictum populum ferocem et malevolum in Suthwerk tot mala facere et fecisse die Jovis supradicto supra pontem London' in armis stetit parvum vel nullum sibi adquirens adiuvamen set plures volentes eundem Walterum Sybyle adiuvasse in resistendo eisdem. idem Walterus Sybyle repulit verbis reprobis et contumeliosis et eos omnino recusavit dicens aperte. Isti Kentenses sunt Amici nostri et Regis et sic dedit eisdem proditoribus supranominatis cum turmis suis liberum introitum et egressum felonice et proditorie ubi hoc impedivisse debuit et de facili potuit. et quando idem Walterus Sybyle premunitus fuit per aliquos quomodo predicti proditores et rebelles fregerunt carceres Regis fecerunt decapitaciones hominum et prostraverunt quoddam tenementum iuxta pontem London'. idem Walterus Sybyle omnia mala predicta parvipendens. dixit quid ex hoc dignum est et dignum fuit everti per xxti annos elapsos. Et dicunt quod ubi Thomas Cornewayles dicto die Jovis in magna comitiva armatorum venit et optulit se ad succurrendum eidem Waltero et ad custodiendum introitum pontis et ad ibidem restitendum proditoribus predictis sub omni forisfactura quod forisfacere potuit. idem Walterus Sybyle felonice et proditorie illorum Adjuvamen recusavit et eos non permisit aliquam custodiam seu resistenciam contra predictos malefactores ibidem facere set sine custodia reliquit portas civitatis apertas. Et sic per maliciam ipsius Walteri Sybyle conyvam et conspiracionem inter ipsum Walterum Sybyle et Johannem Horn precogitatas alie porte civitatis aperte fuerunt et omni clausura caruerunt unde supradicti malefactores nominati et alij eisdem consimiles cum turmis suis per easdem portas liberum introitum et exitum pro libito habuerunt false felonice et proditorie et quod pessimum fuit ex hoc dominus Rex et tota civitas cum toto regno fuerunt in aperto periculo ultimate destruccionis. Item dicunt predicti jurati quod quando dominus noster Rex et maior civitatis predicte in maximo periculo constituti fuerunt in Smethefeld inter turmas malefactorum die Sabbati proximo post festum corporis anno supradicto predictus Walterus recenter recessit ab eisdem equitando in civitatem per vicos de Aldrichegate et de Westchepe et clamavit aperte claudite portas vestras et custodite muros vestros ?quoniam iam totum perditum est. Et dicunt quod Walterus Sybyle et Johannes Horn fecerunt portam de Aldrichesgate claudi felonice et proditorie et in quantum in ipsis fuit impediverunt homines ad succurrendum domino Regi et maiori scientes illos in tali periculo constitutos contra ligeanciam et fidem suas domino Regi debitas cui debuissent omni nisu adherere et eum succurrere et omnibus alijs rebus postpositis defendere et si cives civitatis festinancius se non expedivissent Auxilium domino Regi et maiori minus tarde advenisset causa verborum et factorum predicti Walteri Sybyle et Johannis Horn. Item dicunt super sacramentum quod quidam Thomas Farndon tempore principij Insurreccionis predicte ivit ex proprio suo capite felonice ad malefactores de comitatu Essexie et eis conquerendo dixit quod per reverendum militem Priorem Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem a recta sua hereditate iniuste expulsus fuit. ob quam causam malefactores supradicti indignacionem et magnam rancorem habuerunt erga predictum Priorem. unde plura dampna et ruinam suis placijs et tenementis in comitatu Essexie fecerunt et predictus Thomas Farndon die Jovis in festo corporis Christi supradicto cum predictis Insurrectoribus ut unus eorum capitaneus venit London' ducens retro se magnam turbam. et eorum ductor fuit usque tenementum predicti Prioris vocatum le Temple in Fletestrete felonice et proditorie. et ibi eis signum fecit. ita quod statim eadem tenementa prostraverunt et cum eis ivit usque ad manerium de Savoye quousque plene funditum fuit et crematum deinde clamans socios suos eos duxit usque ad prioratum de Clerkenwell et ibidem predavit et spoliavit Prioratum predictum et igne succensit. Accessitque ultra cum eisdem turmis in civitatem London' et ibidem pernoctabat et recepit secum noctanter plures principales Insurrectores. videlicet Robertum de la Warde et alios. ymaginando illa nocte et cum alijs socijs suis conspirando nomina diversorum civium que fecit scribi in quadam cedula quos vellet decapitare et eorum tenementa prostrare Mane autem facto die veneris proximo post festum corporis Christi predictus Thomas cum pluribus complicibus suis ivit usque ad Hybery et ibidem nobile manerium predicti Prioris ad nichilum igne perverterunt. Deinde accessit cum maledictis malefactoribus usque ad le Milende. obviando domino nostro Regi [photo 164] et ibidem Frenum equi Regis nostril felonice proditorie et irreverenter in manu sua cepit et sic dominum Regem detinendo dicebat ista verba vel consimilia. vindica me de illo falso proditore Priore quia tenementa mea false et Fraudilenter de me arripuit fac michi rectam justiciam et tenementa mea mihi restaurare digneris quia aliter satis fortis sum facere michimet justiciam et in eis reintrare et hahere. cui Rex instanter inquit Habebis quod justum est. Deinde idem Thomas semper continuando suam maliciam ivit apud Turrim London' et felonice et proditorie ibidem intravit et noluit cessare quousque tam Archiepiscopus quam predictus Prior decapitati fuerunt et deinde circuivit civitatem querens quos potuit per cohercionem vite et membrorum facere se redimere et quorum tenementa voluit prostrare. Et tempore quo idem Thomas fuit circa prostracionem tenementi Johannis Knot in Stanynglane: captus fuit et prisone deliberatus et idem Thomas primus fuit omnium principalium Insurrectorum de comitatu Essexie. Et dicunt quod predictus Thomas Farndon a die lune in septimana Pentecostes Anno quarto supradicto usque diem sue capcionis continuavit maliciam suam in coligendo et congregando predictos Insurrectores et in prosequendo mortem predicti Prioris false felonice et proditorie contra fidem et ligeanciam suam in Adnullacionem status sui Regis et pervercionem Regis et Regni. Dicunt eciam predicti jurati quod postquam Willelmus Walleworth maior supradictus portam de Algate in vigilia festi corporis Christi supradicti noctanter claudebat ne malefactores de comitatu Essexie ibidem ingressum haberent quidam Willelmus Tonge portam illam male aperuit et communes ibidem intrare permisit contra voluntatem dicti maioris Item dicunt quod Adam atte Welle et Rogerus Harry Bocheres per quatuordecim dies ante Adventum dictorum Insurrectorum de comitatu Essexie London' ipsos Insurrectores Ad veniendum ad dictam civitatem excitaverunt et procuraverunt et multa super hoc eis promiserunt et postea die Jovis in festo corporis Christi Anno supradicto in eandem civitatem ipsos Insurrectores proditorie introduxerunt et ulterius eos in magna multitudine ad manerium domini Ducis Lancastrie dictum Savoye eodem die perduxerunt et ad arsuram et depredacionem eiusdem maneriij ut eorum ductores et principales consiliatores provocaverunt et exinde plura jocalia et alia bona et valorem et precium viginti librarum felonice asportaverunt Et die veneris proxima sequenti predictus Adam quemdam Nicholaum Wyght in parochial sancti Nicholai ad macellas capud suum pro viginti solidis felonice redimere fecit. In cuius rei testimonium huic inquisitioni indentate tam predicti vicecomites quam predicti juratores sigilla sua alternatim Apposuerunt. Dat' London' vicesimo die Novembris Anno regni Regis Ricardi secundi sexto. Alia inquisicio coram prefato vicecomite inde capta sequitur in hec verba - Inquisicio capta coram Johanne Sely et Adam Bamme vicecomitibus London' quarto die Novembris Anno regni Regis Ricardi secundi Sexto virtute cuiusdam brevis eiusdem domini Regis eisdem vicecomitibus directi ad inquirendum per quem vel quos communes Kancie et Essexie qui nuper diversis magnis conventiculis congregate levati contra fidem et legeanceam suam domino Regi debitas ad civitatem London' et suburbia eiusdem civitatis cum vexillis de armis domini Regis deputis et displicatis intrand' et ibidem diversa prodiciones murdra interfectiones et hominum decapitationes ac domorum arsuras et prostraciones necnon alia mala intollerabilia et hactenus inaudita per ipsos communes sic levatos facta et perpetrata ibidem faciend' excitati fuerunt et ubi quando qualiter et quomodo et insuper quis vel qui Willelmum Walleworth tunc maiorem civitatis predicte et alios quo minus ipsi portas eiusdem civitatis claudere et pontem eiusdem civitatis levare et eandem civitatem contra eosdem communes ut ingressum in eandem non habuissent defendere potuerunt et eisdem communibus in hac parte resistere impedivit vel impediverunt quo casu qualiter et quo modo Ac eciam quis vel qui eosdem communes ipsam civitatem et suburbia eiusdem ex eorum malicia sciens vel scientes nequiter et maliciose intrare permisit vel permiserunt quo casu qualiter et quo modo per sacramentum Roberti Yorke Thome Bristowe Willelmi Whelpele Roberti Lindesey Willelmi Randolf Edwardi Yernemouth Stephani atte Frith Johannis Trentemarz Thome Brehill Stephani Hamme Willelmi Sherewod et Johannis Beauchamp. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod Anno regni domini nostri Regis nunc quarto circa finem Trinitatis quidam magni et timorosi rumoris ad aures Willelmi Walleworth tunc maioris dicte civitatis et pene ad aures omnium civium eiusdem pervenerunt. videlicet quod plures ligeij nostri domini Regis in comitatibus Kancie et Essexie fidem quam dicto domino nostro Regi debuerunt posponentes contra pacem suam et totius regni sui perturbacionem manifestam insurrexerunt et ut mala per eosdem longe ante precogitata facilius ad finem ducerent in diversas et magnas turmas se congregaverunt. unde idem maior ex concensu Aldermannorum et comunitatis eiusdem civitatis pro periculis que exinde verisimiliter domino Regi ac eidem civitati contingere possent evitandis die Mercurij post finem predictam proximo sequenti misit in Kanciam quosdam tunc Aldermannos in presencia sua in dicta civitate constitutos scilicet Johannes Horn Piscenarius Adam Carlel Grossarius et Johannem Fressh Mercerium Dans eisdem ex parte tocius civitatis specialiter in mandatis ut quamcicius obviarent illi rebell' populo sapienter eorum turmas et acies explorarent et ulterius cum dicta multitudine vel saltem cum eorum tunc principalibus ducibus tam sapienter tractarent et ad talem finem quod ipsi dominum nostrum Regem in aliquo non perturbarent set bene fideliter et reverenter ut deberent erga eum in omnibus se gererent exponentes eis ulterius quod dominus Rex erat tunc in civitate pro quo ipsi ad eandem civitatem seu fines illius se non Applicarent et quod nullis de civitate nec aliquibus in eadem degentibus dampna seu aliquod molestum in bonis seu corporibus inferrent. Unde dicti Johannes Horn Adam et Johannes Fressh ipsam maleficam turbam obviam habentes apud le Blakeheth vel prope nuncia taliter sua qualiter eis fecerunt. Et dicunt ulterius ijdem Jurati quod eadem hora predictus Johannes Horn seperans se procul ab eisdem Adam et Johanne Fressh accessit per se ad eosdem malefactores ubi spissius erant congregati et contra missionis sue formam cum principalibus ducibus ipsorum malefactorum dolose et prodiciose tractavit et confederavit videlicet eos maliciose confortans ac eisdem Amiciciam et auxilium tocius civitatis ut in victualibus et omnibus alijs quibus indigerent pro libito promittens. si ad eandem civitatem accedere vellent et sic contra pacem domini Regis et civitatis Ad veniendum ibidem infideliter et prodiciose excitavit et procuravit per quod ijdem malefactores eodem die Mercurij apud Suthwerk venerunt et carcarem domini Regis de Marshalsia Fregerunt Et dicunt insuper super sacramentum suum quod in crastino scilicet in die Jovis in festo Corporis Christi idem Johannes Horn versus eosdem malefactores iterum equitans ipsis malefactoribus quoddam vexillum armis domini Regis deputum. quod de eadem civitate secum tulit tradidit et deliberavit. cum quo vexillo displicato et aperte super longam hastam ante eos lato. quosdam Walterum Tylere Robertum de la Warde Thomam Hauk Alanum Thredere et alios plures principales eorundem rebellium ductores qui postea super eijsdem convicti ad mortem fuerunt per legem regni Adiudicati et cum illis turbas innumerabiles sociorum suorum in dictam civitatem prodiciose introduxit. Habens de covina sua et principalem socium quendam Walterum Sybyle Stokffisshmongere tunc Aldermannum et sibi in omnibus quo Ad introduccionem ipsius malefici populi coadiutorem et fautorem. Dicunt eciam super sacramentum suum quod idem Walterus Sybyle portas civitatis per predictum maiorem contra dictos malefactores clausas ex sua malicia et ex covina predicti Johannis Horn aperuit et quamplures de dicta civitate easdem claudere. ac contra eosdem malefactores defendisse et pontem supra traxisse volentes maliciose et prodiciose per eandem covinam impedivit et talibus verbis contumeliosis vel eis similibus eisdem insultans dixit quid facitis hic. redite ad proprias vestras Wardas vel domos custodiendas quia nemo se intromittet hic in Warda mea nisi ego et socij mei proprij quia sine maioris Auxilio nos sufficimus ad faciendum hic [photo 365] quicquid indiget in isto casu. Et ulterius non obstante quod prisona Marshalsie domini Regis in Suthwerk fuit die Mercurii proximo precedente per dictos malefactores ut supra dicitur fracta et omnes prisones per eos de eadem extracti et unum tenementum iuxta finem pontis situatum fuit eciam per eosdem malefactores eodem die Jovis solotenus obrutum et plurima alia enormia mala ibidem per eosdem similiter facta fuerunt et que omnia eidem Waltero Sybyle notissima fuerunt nichilominus idem Walterus dixit universis astantibus qui pretumultu populi eum audire potuerunt de predictis malefactoribus talia verba vel eis similia isti Kentenses sunt boni homines et amici nostri absit quod porte clauderentur vel aliqua defencio fieret contra eos pretextu quorum verborum plures civium tunc ibidem existencium et defensibiliter armatorum. ac introitum eorundem rebellium impedire volencium et ad hoc verisimiliter valencium. Abinde recesserunt et amplius ibidem ad resistendum dictis rebellibus non redierunt. Et sic idem Walterus Sybyle contra pacem domini Regis et civitatis ipsos malefactores contra suam ligeanceam in dictam civitatem maliciose et prodiciose intrare permisit et liberum introitum cuilibet illorum ad libitum probuit ubi eos ex officio Aldermanrie sue debuit et potuit impedivisse si voluisset per quod omnia mala et Flagicia in eadem civitate et in omnibus finibus eiusdem. ipso die Mercurij supradicto et tribus diebus proximis sequentibus per predictos malefactores perpetrate. videlicet carcerum domini Regis Fracciones prelatorum ac aliorum domini Regis fidelium decapitaciones ecclesiarum violaciones domorum de Savoye et Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste iuxta Smethefeld et aliorum plurimorum domorum Arsure delapidaciones et depredaciones consilio et auxilio dictorum Johannis Horn et Walteri Sybyle cum predicto Waltero Tylere et socijs suis predictis super hec antea prehibitis horribiliter facta fuerunt. Dicunt eciam jurati predicti super sacramentum suum quod die Veneris proximo post introduccionem dictorum malefactorum in dictam civitatem per predictos Johannem Horn et Walterum Sybyle sic ut predicitur factam. Idem Johannes Horn ducens secum magnam turbam eorundem malefactorum armatorum quam nullus ?diminuare tunc leviter potuit vexillo supradicto vel alio eidem simili ante eum displicato et patenter lato. init vsque contra tenementum cuiusdam Ricardi Toky situatum in Lumbardstrete London' et eundem Ricardum ac suos tenentes ab eisdem expulit. et quandam mulierem vocatam Matild' Toky in eisdem imposuit et ulterius capiens super se regalem potestatem omnia bona in eisdem tenementis tunc inuenta eidem mulieri pro dampnis suis adiudicavit et eidem liberari iussit non obstante quod virtute sui officij Aldermanrie pacem domini Regis et civitatis et maxime in eadem civitate specialius debuisset custodivisse. Item dicunt super sacramentum suum quod proximo die Sabbati post finem Trinitatis supradict' quando Walterus Tylere principalis dux dictorum malefactorum fuit dei gracia interfectus in Smethefeld. et dominus noster Rex cum suis sequacibus fuerunt ibidem in parva multitudine et in magno periculo vite sue. Statim predictus Walterus Sybyle de comina predicti Johannis Horn de dicto Smethefeld ubi tunc erat recessit. et intrans civitatem portam de Aldrichegate dolose et prodiciose claudebat et quamplures de civitate per eam ad subveniendum domino Regi exire volentes impedivity. dicens alta voce iam claudite portas festinanter civitatis et custodite eandem tenentes vos infra muros eiusdem. quia Rex noster et maior noster mortui sunt in Smethefeld sciens contrarium esse verum. per que verba dolosa multi et quasi omnes a succursu domini Regis illa hora se retraxerunt et nisi per dei graciam idem maior festinancius advenisset. et predicta verba ipsius Walteri Sybyle esse falsa plebi exposuisset. Ac ad succurrendum domino Regi nobili vultu et instanter cum magna festinacione provocasset. idem dominus noster Rex inter inimicos suos in magno periculo ipsius et tocius regni sui fere solus absque iuvamine civitatis permansisset Item dicunt super sacramentum suum quod quidam Willelmus Tonge tunc Aldermannus predicto die Mercurii portam de Algate per predictum maiorem pro inimicis excludendis clausam videlicet turbas de comitatu Essexie contra pacem domini Regis ex coniva Kentensium levatas idem Willelmus Tonge ipsam portam de nocte aperuit et easdam turbas per dictam portam intrare permisit. que statim ut infra civitatem fuerunt malefactoribus predictis de comitatu Kancie se immiscuerunt. et omnia mala predicta simul cum illis et eis adherentibus peregerunt Set si idem Willelmus Tonge dicte porte apercionem fecit ex sua malicia propria vel ex coniva predictorum Johannis Horn et Walteri Sybyle vel ex metu et minis predictorum malefectorum de comitatu Kancie infra civitatem tunc existencium omnino ignorant ad presens. Item dicunt super sacramentum suum quod quidam Adam atte Welle tunc Bocher ad macellas Sancti Nicholai London' quiquidam Adam iam est provisor victualium domini Ducis Lancastrie per quatuordecim dies ante Adventum dictorum Insurrectorum de Comitatu Essexie in dictam civitatem ipsos in dictum Comitatum Essexie Adivit et eosdem insurrectores ad veniendum ad dictam civitatem excitavit et procuravit et multa super hoc eis promisit. Et postea die Jovis in festo Corporis Christi Anno supradicto in eandem civitatem ipsos introduxit et ulterius eos in magna multitudine ad manerium dicti domini Ducis de Savoye eodem die perduxit et ad arsuram et depredacionem eiusdem manerii ut eorum ductor et consiliator principalis prouocavit et exinde plura iocalia et alia ad valorem et precium viginti librarum sterlingorum excedencia ipsemet Adam felonice Asportavit. Et postea quemdam Nicholaum Wyght Taillour prope dictas macellas commorantem in crastino proximo sequenti caput suum pro viginti solidis sterlingorum redimere fecit. Et dicunt insuper super sacramentum suum quod nomina plurium predictos malefactores ad dictam civitatem principaliter excitancium seu procurancium vel eosdem in eandem introducencium vel ex propria malicia intrare permittencium ad presens non sciunt nisi talium qui hac de causa iustum iudicium mortis per legem regni receperunt vel aliorum qui cartas remissionis domini Regis super huiusmodis malefactis ante istam inquisicionem perquisiverunt. In cuius rei testimonium dicti vicecomites et predicti inquisitores huic inquisicioni indentati sigilla sua Alternatim Apposuerunt. Data London' quarto die Novembris Anno regni Regis nunc supradicto. - Per Recorda de anno sexto - Et modo scilicet a die Pasche in xv dies isto eodem termino coram domino Rege apud Westmonasterium venerunt predicti Johannes Horn Walterus Sybyle Adam Carlyll et Willelmus Tonge et reddiderunt se prisone marescall' domini Regis occasionibus predictis qui committuntur marescall'. Et statim per marescallum ducti venerunt Et quia curia nondum avisatur ad ipsos de feloniis et prodicionibus predictis arre... - predicti Johannes Horn et alij dimittuntur per manuceptionem. Videlicet predictus Johannes Horn per manuceptionem Roberti Lyttyl Johannis Houlot Simonis Rous Hugonis de Ware Et predictus Walterus Sybyle per manuceptionem Edmundi Olyver Johannis Sybyle Johannis Botesham Johannis Grantam. Et predictus Adam Carlyll per manucaptionem Edmundi Fraunceys de London' Reginaldi Sheffeld de comitatu Berk' Johannes Viaunt et Willelmi Pounde. Et predictus Willelmus Tonge per manuceptionem Johannis Botesham Johannis Clopton Thome Dylkes Willelmi atte Croune qui manuceperunt pro predictis Johanne Horn Waltero Sybyle Adam Carlyll et Willelmo Tonge. Habend' corpora eorum separatim coram domino Rege de die in diem quousque et cetera. Videlicet quilibet manucapt' predictorum sub pena ducentarum librarum Et quilibet predictorum Johannis Horn Walteri Sybyle Ade Carlyll et Willelmi Tonge sub pena trecentarum librarum et cetera. |
| Text (English translation) | London: Memorandum that Michael del Pole, chancellor of the lord king, by his own hands delivered into the court in that same term a certain record in these words. Richard, by the grace of God king of England and France, and lord of Ireland, to the sheriffs of London, greetings. Whereas certain of our subjects of the aforesaid city and from elsewhere are charged and notoriously defamed, as we have heard, on account that they incited certain common men of the counties of Kent and Essex, who assembled and levied themselves lately in diverse great conventicles, against their faith and allegiance due to us, with standards deputing and displaying our arms, to enter our aforesaid city and the suburbs of the same, and there [caused] diverse treasons, murders, killings and beheadings of men and burnings and knocking downs of houses, and also other bad, intolerable and up to this point unheard of things to be done and perpetrated by the same common men, so levied. We, if it is so, wishing that what is just is done in this matter, and to made more fully certain by you about the premises for this cause, we order you that, by the oath of upright and lawful men from your bailiwick, by whom the truth of the matter can be better known, you diligently inquire more fully into the truth as to by whom the aforesaid common men, so levied, as is aforesaid, were incited to enter the said city and the suburbs of the same in the foresaid form and to do the aforesaid bad and disadvantageous things, made and perpetrated there, as is aforesaid, and where, when, how and in what way, and in addition who impeded our beloved and faithful William Walleworth, then mayor of our aforesaid city, and our other loyal subjects, from being able to close the gates of the same city and to raise the bridge of the same, and to defend the same city against the same common men, so that they did not have entry into the same, and to resist the same common men in this matter, as it is said, by what case, how and in what way. And also who, knowingly from their malice, permitted the same common men to wickedly and maliciously enter the same city and the suburbs of the same, by what case, how and in what way, and about all and singular the premises and articles and circumstances howsoever concerning all and singular the premises. And you are to send the inquisitions, thereupon clearly and openly made, to us into our Chancery under your seals and the seals of those, by whom they will have been made, without delay, and this writ. Witnessed by me, myself, at Westminster on the 30th day of October in the sixth year of our reign. The indictment, taken by virtue of the aforesaid writ, follows in these words. [The following inquisitions taken from Dobson, pp. 213-26] An Inquisition taken before John Sely and Adam Bamme sheriffs of London by virtue of a writ addressed to them from the king . . . now by the oaths of William Tyngewyk, Robert Fraunceys, Robert Pipot, John Bydyngham, John Wylby, John Wyllardby, John Marcham, John Cole, Thomas Depham, Thomas Kyngesbrugge, John Boche and John Dancastr' who declare under oath that at the time of the evil insurrection and rebellion of the commons of Kent and Essex, namely in the fourth year of King Richard II, William Walworth, then mayor of the city of London, determined to resist the rebels with all his power, to deny them entry into the city and preserve it in peace. Therefore, with the advice of the common council of the said city, he appointed John Horn, Adam Carlyll and John Fresch, citizens and aldermen of London, messengers and envoys to go and meet the people assembled together in defiance of the fealty and loyalty they owed to their king; and the mayor specially commanded these messengers to treat with the malevolent people and to tell them (on behalf of the king and the entire city) not to approach the city to the alarm and disturbance of the king, other lords and ladies as well as the city itself, but rather to obey and reverence the king in all matters as they ought. But the said John, Adam and John did not convey the message with which they had been entrusted; and they (the jurors) say that the aforesaid John Horn, with the assent of Adam and notwithstanding the mayor's command, exceeded his instructions and conspired with the principal rebels. The crowd had been on the point of returning to their homes (hospicia) but John Horn persuaded them with sweet words to move onwards to the city, telling their criminal leaders that the whole of the city of London felt as they did and that they would be received in the city with the friendship that a father offers his son or a lover his loved one. As a result of this false and malicious news given them by John Horn, Adam Carlylle and John Fresch, the rebels and malefactors became jubilant and hardened to their evil purposes. Accordingly they immediately approached the boundaries of the city on the eve of Corpus Christi [12 June] and broke into the king's prison of the Marshalsea. That same evening the aforesaid John Horn led several of the chief rebels and insurrectionary leaders (namely Thomas Hawke, William Newman, John Sterlyng and others who were later convicted of this and sentenced to death) into London with him and criminally and traitorously entertained them in his house all night. Moreover, on that very night, when John Horn told the (greatly alarmed) mayor that the insurgents were advancing on London, he declared and undertook (under penalty of his own execution) that they would do no damage to the city or its suburbs. But on the following morning John Horn went to a certain John Marchaunt, one of the city's clerks, and spoke the following, or similar, words: 'The mayor has commanded you to lend me a standard bearing the royal arms'. After a long examination the said clerk handed such a standard to John Horn although he had absolutely no knowledge of what the latter intended to do with it. John Horn, however, divided the standard into two equal parts of which he tied one to a lance and gave the other to his servant for safe-keeping. Displaying this banner, John Horn then rode to Blackheath, not because he had any official status as a city envoy that day but only in order to fulfil the promises he had already made to the malefactors and to provoke them into entering the city although he knew the alarm and injury this would cause the king, magnates and citizens of London. They [the jurors] add that as he was riding to Blackheath, John Horn met a certain John Blyton who had been sent by the king and his council to warn the rebels not to approach London. Blyton spoke the following, or similar, words to John Horn: 'Lord, I would like to know any message you may be conveying to those rebels on behalf of the city in the hope that the message I am carrying on behalf of the king may agree with yours'. Horn immediately turned on him in anger and replied: 'I have no wish to interfere with your message nor ought you to interfere with mine; I will speak to the rebels as I please and you should do the same'. After the king's envoy had ridden forward to deliver the royal message to the rebels, John Horn arrived and contradicted him. In contempt of the king, Horn uttered the following criminal, false and treasonable words: `Come to London because all of us there are your friends and are ready to do what you propose; we will offer you our favour and help in all that you need'. Horn made this speech in the knowledge that it was contrary to the king's will and his mayor's commands. And so through the agency and encouragement of John Horn (himself counselled and confirmed in his conspiracy by Walter Sybyle), the aforesaid malefactors and rebels together with Walter Tyler, Alan Thredre, William Hawk and John Stakpull, the principal leaders and traitors, came to London where they ran through the streets of the city shouting: 'To the Savoye, to the Savoye!' Consequently John Horn and Walter Sybyle were responsible for introducing the said criminals and traitors into the city - with the result that they broke into the king's prison of Newgate, burnt various tenements, destroyed houses, executed the archbishop and others as well as perpetrating many other evil and unparalleled atrocities. And the jurors declare that as John Horn was walking through the streets of the city with the troops of malefactors, he asked if there was anyone who wished to declare before him any injury he had suffered, and promised that if so he and his men would do speedy justice in the case. Accordingly a certain Matilda Toky came before John Horn and complained that Richard Toky, grocer, had unjustly withheld her due inheritance. Matilda then conducted John Horn, in the company of a great crowd of ribalds and insurgents, to a certain tenement held by Richard Toky in Lombard Street; when they arrived there, John Horn assumed royal authority and gave open judgment that Matilda should have the aforesaid tenement and also adjudged that she should have all the goods and chattels found there as damages; and so Horn disseized and feloniously deprived Richard Toky of his property against the peace and law of the lord king, to the prejudice of the crown, the annulment of the royal dignity, the law of the land and the king's peace and the manifest destruction of the kingdom. They [the jurors] also state that John Horn, in the company of the aforesaid evil bands and sons of iniquity, compelled many inhabitants of London to ransom themselves from threats to their life and limbs; thus he criminally forced a certain Robert Nortoun, tailor, to pay a fine and ransom of £10 sterling to John Pecche, fishmonger. Nortoun put several jewels in pledge that he would pay this sum; for if he had not done so, John Horn swore that he would hand him over to the rebel bands for execution. Consequently John Horn was one of the principal rebels against the king and the chief counsellor of their evil deeds in that it was through the felonious and treasonable encouragement and agency of Walter Sybyle and himself that the malefactors were persuaded to come to London. Moreover, Sybyle and Horn treasonably brought the rebels into London, as a result of which all the said evil deeds were committed within the city and all its suburbs - notwithstanding that Sybyle and Horn were specially bound by their oaths as aldermen to keep the king's peace in London. Item, the aforesaid jurors declare on oath that William Walworth, mayor, after deliberation with the common council of the city, ordered all the aldermen of London and their fellow citizens to arm themselves in order to keep the city, resist the said malefactors, deny them access to the city and defend both its gates and other entrances; and on the said Thursday Walter Sybyle, then an alderman, stationed himself on London Bridge. Although Sybyle knew and saw the evil deeds previously and then being committed by the angry and malevolent mob in Southwark, he asked for little or no assistance. Indeed he repulsed the many who wished to aid him in resisting the mob and altogether refused their help in culpable and contumacious language, openly saying: 'These Kentishmen are friends to us and the king'. And so he criminally allowed the said traitors and their bands free entry and exit into the city although he ought to have prevented them from entering and could have done so easily. When Walter Sybyle was notified that the said traitors and rebels had broken into the royal prison, executed several men and overturned a certain tenement near London Bridge, he belittled all these iniquities with the words : 'What of it? that tenement has deserved destruction for the last twenty years'. And the jurors allege that on that same Thursday, Thomas Cornewayles arrived with a large band of armed men and offered to assist Sybyle to defend the entrance to the bridge and resist the traitors there; the latter, incurring all possible forfeiture of his goods, criminally and treasonably refused their help and would not allow them to oppose the rebels but left the gates of the city open and without a guard. Consequently, because of the malevolence of Walter Sybyle and his fraudulent conspiracy with John Horn, other gates of the city were left open and unlocked; the aforesaid and other malefactors were therefore able to have free entry and exit through the gates with their bands. This action was false, criminal and treacherous as well as, at the worst, one from which the king, the entire city and kingdom faced the clear danger of final destruction. Item, the said jurors declare that when, at Smithfield on Saturday 15 June, our lord the king and the mayor of the city were surrounded by bands of malefactors and at their point of greatest peril, the said Walter Sybyle suddenly left them and rode into the city through Aldersgate and Westchepe, openly shouting 'Close your gates and defend your walls, for all is now lost'. And the jurors say that Walter Sybyle and John Horn caused Aldersgate to be criminally and treacherously locked; and that, as far as they could, they prevented men from going to help the lord king and the mayor although they knew that the latter were in such danger. Sybyle and Horn therefore acted contrary to the loyalty and fealty they owed the lord king, whom they ought to have followed, helped and defended with all their might and to the exclusion of all other considerations. Moreover, if the citizens of London had not acted more quickly on their own account, help would have reached the lord king and the mayor too late just because of the words and deeds of the said Walter Sybyle and John Horn. Item, the jurors declare under oath that a certain Thomas Farndon, at the time of the principal insurrection criminally and on his own volition approached the malefactors from the county of Essex; and he complained to them that he had been unjustly expelled from his rightful inheritance by that reverend knight, the prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Consequently the said rebels conceived such great indignation and rancour against the said prior that they caused great damage and destruction to his places and tenements in the county of Essex. On the Thursday of Corpus Christi [13 June] Thomas Farndon came into London with the said rebels as one of their captains; and he criminally and treasonably led a large band to one of the said prior's tenements called the Temple, in Fleet Street. Farndon signalled to his followers to throw down the Temple forthwith and then went on with them to the manor of Savoy where he stayed until it was completely destroyed and burnt. Farndon then called to his companions and led them to the priory of Clerkenwell which he looted, spoiled and put to flames. He and his bands of rebels then entered the city of London and spent the night there. During the night Farndon entertained many of the principal insurgents, namely Robert de la Warde and others, and entered into a conspiracy with them: he outlined the names of those citizens (written down on a certain schedule) whom he wished to be executed and whose tenements he wanted to destroy. On the following Friday morning [14 June] the said Thomas Farndon went with his many accomplices to Highbury and there completely destroyed by fire the noble manor of the prior of St John's. Then he went with the evil malefactors to 'le Milende' where he met our lord the king. Farndon criminally, treasonably and irreverently grabbed the reins of the king's horse and as he detained the king, spoke the following or similar words : 'Revenge me on that false traitor the prior, for he has falsely and fraudulently seized my tenements; do right justice in my case and deign to restore my tenements to me; otherwise, know that I am strong enough to do justice on my own account and to secure my possession and entry into those tenements'. The king immediately told Farndon: 'You shall have what is just'. But Farndon continued his obduracy and went on to the Tower of London which he criminally and treasonably entered, not wishing to leave until both the archbishop and the said prior had been executed. Farndon then progressed through the city seeking those whom he could force to ransom themselves under threat to their life and limbs and others whose tenements he wished to destroy. But while Farndon was busy throwing down the tenement of John Knot in Stanynglane he was captured and taken to prison. Now Farndon stood first among all the chief rebels of the county of Essex; and they [the jurors] say that from Monday in Whitsuntide week [3 June] until the day of his capture, he sustained his malevolence in collecting and assembling the said rebels and planning the death of the said prior. He did these things both criminally and treasonably, contrary to his faith and loyalty, and to the destruction of the king's position and the overturning of the king and kingdom. The said jurors also declare that after William Walworth, then mayor, closed the gate of Aldgate by night on the eve of Corpus Christi [12 June], lest the malefactors from Essex should enter thereby, a certain William Tonge evilly opened the gate and allowed the commons to enter against the mayor's will. Item, the jurors declare that Adam atte Welle and Roger Harry, butchers, encouraged and incited the rebels from Essex to come to London for fourteen days before they arrived in the city. Adam and Roger had promised the insurgents many things; and afterwards, on the Thursday of Corpus Christi [13 June], they treasonably led the said rebels into the city and on that day conducted a great crowd to the manor of the lord duke of Lancaster called Savoy. Adam and Roger, acting as the principal leaders and counsellors of the rebels, provoked the crowd to burn and loot the said manor; and they carried off many jewels and other goods to the value of £20. Moreover, on the following Friday [14 June], the said Adam criminally forced a certain Nicholas Wyght at the shambles in the parish of St Nicholas to ransom his head for twenty shillings. In testimony of which things both the said sheriffs and the jurors have placed their seals alternately to this indenture and inquisition. Dated at London, 20 November [1382]. Another inquisition taken before the aforesaid sheriffs follows in these words: An inquisition taken before John Sely and Adam Bamme, sheriffs of London, on 4 November in the sixth year of King Richard II on the oaths of Robert Yorke, Thomas Bristowe, William Whecerpele, Robert Lindesey, William Randolfe, Edward Yernemouth, Stephen atte Frith, John Trentemarz, Thomas Brehill, Stephen Hamme, William Sherewode and John Beauchamp in accordance with a certain royal writ addressed to the said sheriffs. This writ directed them to inquire through whose agency the commons of Kent and Essex (recently assembled in several large bands against the fealty and allegiance they owed to the lord king) had been incited to enter the city of London and its suburbs bearing standards displaying the royal arms and where they committed acts of treason, murders, killings, executions, the burning and destruction of houses as well as other intolerable and hitherto unheard-of evils; and [also to inquire] who, and under what circumstances, prevented William Walworth, then mayor of the said city, and others from closing the city gates and raising the city bridge so that they were unable to resist the said commons and deny them entry into the city; and also who, and under what circumstances, knowingly and with malice aforethought, nevertheless iniquitously and maliciously allowed them access to the city and the suburbs. The jurors declare under oath that in the fourth year of the present king at about the end of Trinity [9 June] certain great and fearful rumours reached the ears of the then mayor, William Walworth, and almost all the citizens of London. They heard that many liegemen of our lord the king in the counties of Kent and Essex had laid aside the loyalty which they owed to the king and had risen against his peace to the manifest disturbance of all his realm. In order to achieve more easily the evil aims they had long planned they assembled in several large bands. Accordingly, and in order to avoid the dangers which seemed likely to beset the king and the city, the said mayor (with the consent of the aldermen and the community of the city) sent into Kent on the Wednesday after Trinity [12 June] certain aldermen, appointed in his presence within the city, namely John Horn, fishmonger, Adam Carlel, grocer, and John Fressh, mercer. The mayor especially commanded them on behalf of the whole city that as soon as they met the rebel people they should carefully reconnoitre their bands and battle-order. Moreover, these aldermen were ordered to negotiate sensibly with the said multitude or at least with the chief leaders and persuade them not to disturb our lord the king at all but behave well, loyally and reverently towards him in all things as they ought. The envoys were asked to inform the rebels that our lord the king was then within the city and so they should not approach the city or its suburbs nor molest either the goods or the persons of the Londoners or those who were staying in the city. Accordingly the said John Horn, Adam and John Fressh met that malicious band at or near Blackheath and conveyed the gist of the message with which they had been entrusted. But the jurors declare that at the same time the said John Horn left Adam and John Fressh and went on by himself to the place where the rebels were most thickly assembled; and against the purpose of his mission he negotiated and conspired deceitfully and treacherously with the chief leaders of the malefactors, comforting them maliciously and promising them the friendship and assistance of the entire city: he said that the rebels would have all the food and other things they needed if they decided to enter London. And so Horn disloyally and treacherously persuaded and incited the rebels to come to London against the peace of the lord king and the city. For which reason on the same Wednesday those same evildoers came to Southwark and broke open the royal prison of Marshalsea. The jurors also declare under their oath that on the following day, Thursday 13 June, the same John Horn rode again to the said malefactors and handed over to them a certain standard bearing the arms of the lord king which he had brought with him from the city. With this standard openly displayed on a long lance carried before them, he treacherously brought Walter Tylere, Robert de la Warde, Thomas Hauk, Alan Thredere and many of the other principal leaders of the rebels (who were afterwards convicted for their offences and adjudged to death by the law of the realm) with their bands of innumerable fellows into the city. Horn's fellow-conspirator and principal colleague was a certain Walter Sybyle, stockfishmonger, then an alderman, who acted as his chief helper and assistant in introducing the malicious mob into the city. The jurors also declare on their oath that the same Walter Sybyle maliciously opened the gates of the city, closed against the said evildoers by Mayor Walworth, in connivance with the said John Horn. Similarly, Walter Sybyle prevented many men of the city who wished to close the gates, defend them against the malefactors and draw up the bridge, from doing so. In the following, or similar, arrogant and insulting fashion, Sybyle told them, 'You do this; return to keep your own Wards or houses for no one is to interfere in my Ward except myself and my own fellows who are well able to do all that is necessary without further help'. He did this notwithstanding the fact that the royal prison of the Marshalsea in Southwark had (as has been said) been broken into by the said malefactors on the previous Wednesday and all the prisoners led out by the rebels, and that on that very Thursday a tenement near the end of the bridge had been pulled to the ground and many other enormities committed by the rebels. When all these matters were mentioned to Walter Sybyle, he nevertheless spoke to all the bystanders who could hear him above the tumult of the people, in the following or similar terms about the said malefactors: 'These Kentishmen are good men and our friends; God forbid that the gates should be closed or any resistance be offered to them'. Because of these words, many of the citizens then present, defensively armed and ready and probably able to prevent the entry of the rebels, departed and did not return to resist the rebels any further. And so this same Walter Sybyle maliciously and treacherously allowed the malefactors to enter, and offered them free entry at their pleasure - against the peace of the king and city and his own liegance when, as an alderman, he ought and could have prevented them if he had wished. From this crime there followed the horrible evils and iniquities committed by the said malefactors in London and its suburbs on that Wednesday [sic] and the following three days, namely, the breaking open of royal prisons, the beheading of prelates and others faithful to our lord the king, the violation of churches, and the burning, destruction and looting of the houses of the Savoy, the hospital of St John the Baptist next to Smithfield and many others, all the horrible result of the previous counsel and help given to Walter Tylere and his fellows by the said John Horn and Walter Sybyle. The jurors also declare under their oath that on the Friday [14 June] immediately following the introduction of the said evildoers into London by John Horn and Walter Sybyle as has been said, the same John Horn led with him a large band of the said armed malefactors, whose numbers at that time no one could easily diminish. With the standard already mentioned, or one similar to it, openly displayed and carried before him, Horn went up to the tenement of a certain Richard Toky situated in Lombard Street, London. He expelled Richard and his tenants from the property and placed a certain woman called Matilda Toky there instead. Taking royal power on himself, he adjudged that all the goods then found in Richard Toky's tenements should go to Matilda as her damages; and he ordered that these goods should be delivered to her, notwithstanding that by virtue of his aldermanic office he ought to have especially preserved the peace of the king and city, particularly within the city itself. Item, the jurors declare under oath that on the Saturday after Trinity [15 June] when Walter Tylere, the principal leader of the said malefactors, had by the grace of God been killed in Smithfield and our lord king with his retinue was there in much difficulty and in great danger of losing his life, Walter Sybyle with the connivance of the said John Horn left Smithfield where he had been present. Entering the city, Sybyle deceitfully and treacherously closed Aldersgate and prevented many men of the city from passing through this gate to go to the help of the king. In a loud voice, Sybyle cried, 'Close the gates of the city quickly, guard them and stay within the walls for our king and mayor have died in Smithfield,' although he knew the contrary to be the truth. Because of these deceitful words many and indeed almost all then gave up their attempt to aid the king; and if it had not been for the rapid arrival, thanks to God, of the mayor himself, who informed the people that Walter Sybyle's news was false and urged them to rescue the lord king bravely and without any delay, the king would have remained almost alone among his enemies, in great danger to himself and his whole realm, without the assistance of the city. Item, the jurors state under oath that a certain William Tonge, then an alderman, on the said Wednesday [12 June] opened the gate of Aldgate at night and allowed the bands to enter thereby; although this gate had been closed by the said mayor in order to keep out enemies, namely the mobs from the county of Essex who had risen against the king's peace with the connivance of the Kentishmen. Immediately they had entered the city, the rebels from Essex joined forces with the said malefactors from Kent and together with their adherents perpetrated all the said ills. But they [the jurors] do not at present know whether William Tonge had Aldgate opened because of his own malice, because he was in league with John Horn and Walter Sybyle, or because he was frightened by the threats of the malefactors from Kent who were already within the city. Item, the jurors declare under their oath that a certain Adam atte Welle, then a butcher at the shambles of St Nicholas, London, and now a provider of victuals to the lord duke of Lancaster, travelled into Essex fourteen days before the arrival of the rebels from that county in the city of London; there Adam incited and encouraged the rebels of Essex to come to London and promised them many things if they did so. Afterwards, on Thursday 13 June, Adam brought the Essex men into London and led them in a great crowd to the manor of the said duke, the Savoy, where (as their chief leader and councillor) he provoked them to burn and plunder the manor. Adam himself criminally carried off many jewels and other things from the Savoy valued at more than twenty pounds sterling. Later, and on the next day, Adam made a certain Nicholas Wyghte, a tailor living near the aforesaid shambles, ransom his life for twenty shillings sterling. And the jurors declare under oath that at present they do not know the names of many men who were chiefly responsible for inciting the said malefactors to enter the city, for bringing them within and allowing them to enter out of malice - except for those who for this reason received the just judgment of death by the law of the realm, and others who besought charters of remission from the king concerning such misdeeds before the date of this inquisition. In testimony of which things, the said sheriffs and inquisitors have alternately applied their seals to this indenture and inquisition. Dated at London on 4 November [1382]. By the records from the sixth year. And now, namely in 15 days from Easter Day in this same term, before the lord king at Westminster there came the aforesaid John Horn, Walter Sybyle, Adam Carlyll and William Tonge, and they handed themselves over to the prison of the marshal of the lord king by the aforesaid occasions, who are committed to the marshal. And immediately having been brought by the marshal, they came. And because the court is not advised to arraign them about the aforesaid felonies and treasons, the aforesaid John Horn and the others are dismissed by mainprise. Viz, the aforesaid John Horn, by mainprise of Robert Lyttyl, John Houlot, Simon Rous and Hugh de Ware. And the aforesaid Walter Sybyle by the mainprise of Edmund Olyver, John Sybyle, John Botesham and John Grantam. And the aforesaid Adam Carlyll by the mainprise of Edmund Fraunceys of London, Reginald Sheffeld of the county of Berkshire, John Viaunt and William Pounde. And the aforesaid William Tonge by the mainprise of John Botesham, John Clopton, Thomas Dylkes and William atte Croune. Who mainprised for the aforesaid John Horn, Walter Sybyle, Adam Carlyll and William Tonge, to have their bodies separately before the lord king from day to day until, etc. Viz, each of the aforesaid mainpernors under pain of £200. And each of the aforesaid John Horn, Walter Sybyle, Adam Carlyll and William Tonge, under pain of £300, etc. |
| General Information | The two inquisitions cover the same events and the incidents have attempted to compile information from both; see Dobson pp. 212-3 for a discussion. |
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People
| ID | First name | Last name | Gender | Occupation | Domicile | Role in source | Incidents | Go to participant page |
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| 25876 | Adam | Bamme | Male | Sheriff of London | Sheriff | Go to participant page | ||
| 25925 | John | Beauchamp | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25900 | John | Blyton | Male | 4411 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25887 | John | Boche | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25932 | John | Botesham | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25922 | Thomas | Brehill | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25915 | Thomas | Bristowe | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25880 | John | Bydyngham | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25891 | Adam | Carlyll | Male | Alderman,Grocer | 4410 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25938 | John | Clopton | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25884 | John | Cole | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25907 | Thomas | Cornewayles | Male | 4414 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25940 | William | atte Croune | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25888 | John | Dancastre | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25885 | Thomas | Depham | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25939 | Thomas | Dylkes | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25908 | Thomas | Farndon | Male | 4416,4417 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25934 | Edmund | Fraunceys | Male | London | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | ||
| 25878 | Robert | Fraunceys | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25892 | John | Fresch | Male | Mercer,Alderman | 4410 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25920 | Stephen | atte Frith | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25933 | John | Grantam | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25923 | Stephen | Hamme | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25912 | Roger | Harry | Male | Butcher | 4419 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25893 | Thomas | Hawke | Male | 4411 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25890 | John | Horn | Male | Fishmonger,Alderman | 4415,4411,4413,4412,4410,4414 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25927 | John | Houlot | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25909 | John | Knot | Male | 4417 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25886 | Thomas | Kyngesbrugge | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25917 | Robert | Lindesey | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25926 | Robert | Lyttyl | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25883 | John | Marcham | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25899 | John | Marchaunt | Male | Clerk | 4411 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25894 | William | Newman | Male | 4411 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25905 | Robert | Nortoun | Male | Tailor | 4413 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25930 | Edmund | Olyver | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25906 | John | Pecche | Male | Fishmonger | 4413 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25879 | Robert | Pipot | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25937 | William | Pounde | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25918 | William | Randolfe | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25928 | Simon | Rous | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25875 | John | Sely | Male | Sheriff of London | Sheriff | Go to participant page | ||
| 25935 | Reginald | Sheffeld | Male | Berkshire | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | ||
| 25924 | William | Sherewode | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25902 | John | Stakpull | Male | 4411 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25895 | John | Sterlyng | Male | 4411 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25931 | John | Sybyle | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25901 | Walter | Sybyle | Male | Fishmonger | 4415,4414,4411 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25898 | Alan | Thredere | Male | 4411 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25904 | Matilda | Toky | Female | 4412 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25903 | Richard | Toky | Male | Grocer | 4412 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25910 | William | Tonge | Male | Alderman | 4418 | Go to participant page | ||
| 25921 | John | Trentemarz | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25896 | Walter | Tylere | Male | 4411 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25877 | William | Tyngewyk | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25936 | John | Viaunt | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25889 | William | Walworth | Male | Mayor | London | 4418,4410,4414,4415 | Go to participant page | |
| 25897 | Robert | de la Warde | Male | 4416,4411 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25929 | Hugh | de Ware | Male | Mainpernor | Go to participant page | |||
| 25911 | Adam | atte Welle | Male | Butcher | St Nicholas Shambles,London,London | 4419,4420 | Go to participant page | |
| 25916 | William | Whecerpele | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25913 | Nicholas | Wyght | Male | 4420 | Go to participant page | |||
| 25881 | John | Wylby | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25882 | John | Wyllardby | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25919 | Edward | Yernemouth | Male | Juror | Go to participant page | |||
| 25914 | Robert | Yorke | Male | Juror | Go to participant page |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Type | Go to incidents page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4419 | Adam atte Welle and Roger Harry lead the Essex rebels to the Savoy | Adam atte Welle and Roger Harry had contact with the Essex rebels two weeks before their arrival in the London, and on Thursday 13 June 1381, they led them into the city and to the manor of the Savoy, which they looted. | Joining rebel company,Larceny: theft of goods,Trespass to chattels: removal of goods | Go to incidents page |
| 4420 | Adam atte Welle forces Nicholas Wyght to pay a fine | On Friday 14 June 1381 Adam atte Welle criminally forced Nicholas Wyght to pay a fine of 20 shillings at the parish of St Nicholas Shambles. | Trespass to chattels: extortion and forcible fine | Go to incidents page |
| 4410 | John Horn, Adam Carlyll and John Fresch incite rebels of Kent and Essex to enter London | William Walworth, mayor of London, having heard rumours of the planned uprising by the men of Kent and Essex, sent John Horn, Adam Carlyll and John Fresch, citizens and aldermen of London, into Kent on 12 June 1381 to negotiate with the rebels. They met the rebels at Blackheath, and John Horn, against the command of William Walworth, incited the rebels of Kent and Essex to enter the City of London and to break the prison of the Marshalsea. | Raising the commons: other | Go to incidents page |
| 4412 | John Horn disseises Richard Toky of his tenements | On Friday 14 June 1381 in Lombard Street, John Horn displayed a standard and assumed royal authority in a dispute between Matilda Toky and Richard Toky, disseising Richard of his tenement, goods and chattels. | Trespass to land: forcible ejection of landholder | Go to incidents page |
| 4413 | John Horn forces Robert Nortoun to pay a fine of £10 to John Pecche | John Horn forced Robert Nortoun, tailor, to pay a fine of £10 to John Pecche, fishmonger, under threat of execution by the rebels. | Trespass to person: threats,Trespass to chattels: extortion and forcible fine ,Trespass to person: extortion | Go to incidents page |
| 4411 | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London | On Wednesday 12 June 1381 John Horn led chief rebels into the city and entertained them at his house. On Thursday 13 June he borrowed a standard from John Marchaunt, one of the city's clerks, and rode with it to Blackheath, where he contradicted the message to the rebels of John Blyton, the king's envoy. With the standard openly displayed on a long lance, he treacherously brought Walter Tylere, Robert de la Warde, Thomas Hauk, Alan Thredere and many of the other principal leaders of the rebels into the city, where they broke into the prison of Newgate, burnt and destroyed houses, executed the archbishop, and other atrocities. Horn's fellow-conspirator and principal colleague was a certain Walter Sybyle, stockfishmonger. | Arson: burning of houses,Making flags and banners,Raising the commons: other | Go to incidents page |
| 4416 | Thomas Farndon attacks the Temple in Fleet St, the priory of Clerkenwell and the Savoy | On Thursday 13 June 1381, Thomas Farndon came from Essex and led rebels to the tenement of the Prior of St John of Jerusalem called the Temple in Fleet Street, and they threw it down. They then proceeded to the Savoy, and burnt it down, and the priory of Clerkenwell, which they looted, despoiled and burnt. That night Farndon entertained many of the principal insurgents, including Robert la Warde, and conspired with them, creating a schedule of intended targets. | Larceny: theft of goods,Trespass to chattels: removal of goods,Trespass to land: throwing down of house,Arson: burning of houses,Treason: plotting against the King and his subjects | Go to incidents page |
| 4417 | Thomas Farndon burns the manor of Highbury, accosts the king at Mile End, enters the Tower and throws down the tenement of John Knot | On Friday 14 June 1381 Thomas Farndon with his accomplices went to the manor of the Prior of St John of Jerusalem at Highbury and burnt it down. They then went to Mile End, where he seized the reins of the king's horse and demanded justice for the seizure of his tenements by the said Prior. Farndon then proceeded to the Tower of London and entered it treasonably. He then proceeded through London seeking those who he wished to ransom or whose tenements he wished to throw down, and he was captured whilst throwing down the tenement of John Knot in Staining Lane and taken to prison. | Trespass to land: throwing down of house,Arson: burning of houses,Trespass to chattels: extortion and forcible fine ,Trespass to person: threats,Trespass to person: extortion,Trespass to land: forcible entry of close and houses,Treason: words against King and his people | Go to incidents page |
| 4414 | Walter Sybyle allows the rebels to pass over London Bridge into the city | On Thursday 13 June, disregarding the commands of the mayor William Walworth, Walter Sybyle allowed the rebels to pass over London Bridge, and defended their actions. He rejected the aid of Thomas Cornewalys in defending the bridge and left the city gates open, in conspiracy with John Horn. | Raising the commons: other,Treason: words against King and his people | Go to incidents page |
| 4415 | Walter Sybyle prevents aid reaching the king at Smithfield | On Saturday 15 June 1381, when the king and mayor were surrounded by rebels at Smithfield, Walter Sybyle left them and rode to Aldgate and West Cheap, and with John Horn he prevented men of those areas from going to the aid of the king, spreading malicious rumours that the king and mayor had been killed. | Treason: words against King and his people | Go to incidents page |
| 4418 | William Tonge opens the gate of Aldgate | William Tonge opened the gate of Aldgate to the men of Kent and Essex against the will of the mayor on 12 June 1381. | Raising the commons: other | Go to incidents page |
Incidents and People
| Person | Incident | Role | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| John of Gaunt ( 5695 ) | Adam atte Welle and Roger Harry lead the Essex rebels to the Savoy (4419) | Victim | |
| Roger Harry ( 25912 ) | Adam atte Welle and Roger Harry lead the Essex rebels to the Savoy (4419) | Accused | |
| Adam atte Welle ( 25911 ) | Adam atte Welle and Roger Harry lead the Essex rebels to the Savoy (4419) | Accused | |
| Adam atte Welle ( 25911 ) | Adam atte Welle forces Nicholas Wyght to pay a fine (4420) | Accused | |
| Nicholas Wyght ( 25913 ) | Adam atte Welle forces Nicholas Wyght to pay a fine (4420) | Victim | |
| Adam Carlyll ( 25891 ) | John Horn, Adam Carlyll and John Fresch incite rebels of Kent and Essex to enter London (4410) | Accused | |
| John Fresch ( 25892 ) | John Horn, Adam Carlyll and John Fresch incite rebels of Kent and Essex to enter London (4410) | Accused | |
| John Horn ( 25890 ) | John Horn, Adam Carlyll and John Fresch incite rebels of Kent and Essex to enter London (4410) | Accused | |
| William Walworth ( 25889 ) | John Horn, Adam Carlyll and John Fresch incite rebels of Kent and Essex to enter London (4410) | Victim | |
| John Horn ( 25890 ) | John Horn disseises Richard Toky of his tenements (4412) | Accused | |
| Matilda Toky ( 25904 ) | John Horn disseises Richard Toky of his tenements (4412) | Mentioned | |
| Richard Toky ( 25903 ) | John Horn disseises Richard Toky of his tenements (4412) | Victim | |
| John Horn ( 25890 ) | John Horn forces Robert Nortoun to pay a fine of £10 to John Pecche (4413) | Accused | |
| Robert Nortoun ( 25905 ) | John Horn forces Robert Nortoun to pay a fine of £10 to John Pecche (4413) | Victim | |
| John Pecche ( 25906 ) | John Horn forces Robert Nortoun to pay a fine of £10 to John Pecche (4413) | Accused | |
| John Blyton ( 25900 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Mentioned | |
| Thomas Hawke ( 25893 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| John Horn ( 25890 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| John Marchaunt ( 25899 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Mentioned | |
| William Newman ( 25894 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| John Stakpull ( 25902 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| John Sterlyng ( 25895 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| Walter Sybyle ( 25901 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| Alan Thredere ( 25898 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| Walter Tylere ( 25896 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| Robert de la Warde ( 25897 ) | John Horn takes a standard to the rebels and brings them into London (4411) | Accused | |
| Thomas Farndon ( 25908 ) | Thomas Farndon attacks the Temple in Fleet St, the priory of Clerkenwell and the Savoy (4416) | Accused | |
| John of Gaunt ( 5695 ) | Thomas Farndon attacks the Temple in Fleet St, the priory of Clerkenwell and the Savoy (4416) | Victim | |
| Robert Hales ( 6778 ) | Thomas Farndon attacks the Temple in Fleet St, the priory of Clerkenwell and the Savoy (4416) | Victim | |
| Robert de la Warde ( 25897 ) | Thomas Farndon attacks the Temple in Fleet St, the priory of Clerkenwell and the Savoy (4416) | Accused | |
| Thomas Farndon ( 25908 ) | Thomas Farndon burns the manor of Highbury, accosts the king at Mile End, enters the Tower and throws down the tenement of John Knot (4417) | Accused | |
| Robert Hales ( 6778 ) | Thomas Farndon burns the manor of Highbury, accosts the king at Mile End, enters the Tower and throws down the tenement of John Knot (4417) | Victim | |
| Richard II ( 22903 ) | Thomas Farndon burns the manor of Highbury, accosts the king at Mile End, enters the Tower and throws down the tenement of John Knot (4417) | Victim | |
| John Knot ( 25909 ) | Thomas Farndon burns the manor of Highbury, accosts the king at Mile End, enters the Tower and throws down the tenement of John Knot (4417) | Victim | |
| Thomas Cornewayles ( 25907 ) | Walter Sybyle allows the rebels to pass over London Bridge into the city (4414) | Mentioned | |
| John Horn ( 25890 ) | Walter Sybyle allows the rebels to pass over London Bridge into the city (4414) | Accused | |
| Walter Sybyle ( 25901 ) | Walter Sybyle allows the rebels to pass over London Bridge into the city (4414) | Accused | |
| William Walworth ( 25889 ) | Walter Sybyle allows the rebels to pass over London Bridge into the city (4414) | Mentioned | |
| John Horn ( 25890 ) | Walter Sybyle prevents aid reaching the king at Smithfield (4415) | Accused | |
| Richard II ( 22903 ) | Walter Sybyle prevents aid reaching the king at Smithfield (4415) | Victim | |
| Walter Sybyle ( 25901 ) | Walter Sybyle prevents aid reaching the king at Smithfield (4415) | Accused | |
| William Walworth ( 25889 ) | Walter Sybyle prevents aid reaching the king at Smithfield (4415) | Victim | |
| William Tonge ( 25910 ) | William Tonge opens the gate of Aldgate (4418) | Accused | |
| William Walworth ( 25889 ) | William Tonge opens the gate of Aldgate (4418) | Victim |
