John Ferrour, Joanna Ferrour and others burn the Savoy and steal £1000
Details
John Ferrour of Rochester in the county of Kent, David Calvelei, clerk, and Joan Ferrour, wife of the aforesaid John Ferrour, and Roger atte Wode of the county of Kent, came in a great company of insurgent wrongdoers of Kent as the principal actors and leaders on Thursday 13 June 1381, at the Savoy in the county of Middlesex, and they burnt down the said manor as enemies of the king, and they took a certain chest, in which there were £1,000 of sterling of John, duke of Lancaster, and more there, and they placed and carried away the said chest in a certain small ship upon the Thames, and brought it as far as Southwark, and there they divided the said gold between them.
