John Ferrour of Rochester came with a great company of insurgent wrongdoers of Kent, as the principal actors and leaders, on Friday 14 June 1381 at the Savoy in the county of Middlesex, and burnt down the said manor as enemies of the king, and took a certain chest, in which there were £1,000 of sterling of John, duke of Lancaster, and more there, and placed and took away the said chest in a certain small ship upon the Thames, and brought it to Southwark and there divided the said gold among themselves.
John appears and pleads not guilty; the jury acquit him. Order to William Walleworth to determine whether John is indicted of any crimes in the City of London, as he is one of those exempted from the general pardon; Walleworth returns that there are no indictments.
