The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | John |
| Last name | Ewell |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Escheator |
| Source | TNA KB 145/3/6/1 m. 4 |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3400 | John Turnour and three others were chief leaders in the killing of John Ewell and the destruction of houses. | John Turnour, Daniel Mous, Robert Cardemaker and Robert Chapman were chief leaders in the killing of John Ewell and the destruction of houses at Cressing Temple, at the manor of John Gildesburgh, at the manor of Richard Lyons and the house of John Sewale; they also burned court rolls and other muniments. | Coggeshall,Essex; Cressing Temple,Witham Hundred,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 3418 | Robert Cardemaker and 17 others assembled at Bocking and took an oath to destroy certain people and do away with all lordship; they also took part in the attack on property in Coggeshall and Cressing Temple and in the killing of John Ewell. | Robert Cardemaker and 17 others assembled at Bocking and took an oath to destroy certain people and do away with all lordship; they also took part in the attack on property of the sheriff John Sewale and the exchequer clerk Robert de Segynton in Coggeshall, the destruction of Cressing Temple and the killing of John Ewell. | Cressing Temple,Witham Hundred,Essex; Coggeshall,Essex; Bocking,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 3422 | William Smyth and 15 others assembled at Bocking and took an oath to destroy certain people and do ordain their own laws; they attacked property in Coggeshall and Cressing Temple, killied John Ewell and burnt fiscal documents. | William Smyth and 15 others assembled at Bocking and took an oath to destroy certain people and do ordain their own laws; they attacked property in Coggeshall, assaulted John Sewale and Richard de Segynton, took part in the attack on Cressing Temple, killied John Ewell and burnt fiscal documents, sealed with green wax, in Chelmsford. . | Bocking,Essex; Coggeshall,Essex; Chelmsford,Essex; Cressing Temple,Witham Hundred,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 3441 | John Warner senior took part in the attacks on Cressing Temple and the house of John Sewale in Coggeshall where he also killed John Ewell. | John Warner senior of Maldon took part in the attacks on Cressing Temple and the house of John Sewale in Coggeshall; from the latter he stole goods worth 20s. On the same day he killed the escheator John Ewell. | Coggeshall,Essex; Cressing Temple,Witham Hundred,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 3444 | John Smyth broke into the houses at Cressing Temple, into the houses of John Sewale and John Ewell in Coggeshall. | John Smyth, servant of John Elmestede junior, broke into the houses at Cressing Temple, into the houses of John Sewale and John Ewell in Coggeshall; from Sewale's house he took goods worth 20s. and from Ewell's house goods worth 100s. | Coggeshall,Essex; Cressing Temple,Witham Hundred,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 3448 | Peter Brid took part in the attack on Cressing Temple (Essex); he burnt the court rolls of Tillingham (Essex). | Peter Brid of Tillingham took part in the attack on Cressing Temple (Essex); he was the first to strike a blow against the escheator John Ewell, and he destroyed the court rolls of Tillingham. | Cressing Temple,Witham Hundred,Essex; Coggeshall,Essex; Tillingham,Dengie Hundred,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 3476 | John Weylate struck John Ewell with a poleaxe and cut his head off. He broke into Ewell's house in Feering and took away documents and goods worth £100. | John Weylate of Maldon, weaver, came to Coggeshall and struck John Ewell twice with a poleaxe before he cut his head off; afterwards he broke into Ewell's house in Feering and took away documents and goods worth £100. | Feering,Essex; Coggeshall,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 3756 | Petition from Matthew Swetenham concerning the manor of Langdon Hall, seized by Richard Palmere during the rising | Matthew Swetenham requests a commission of enquiry directed to FitzWalter and others into Palmere's intrusion into the manor of Langdon Hall. He states the manor was held by Langdon in chief, and when he died without heir it was taken into the king's hands by Ewell, the escheator. Ewell held the manor for the king until, by the procurement of Palmere, Ewell was beheaded during the recent insurrection, whereupon Palmer seized the manor himself. | Langdon Hills,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 3872 | Ralph atte Wode indicted for the attacks on Cressing Temple, Coggeshall and Peldon and marsh to Mile End. | Ralph atte Wode indicted for leading the attacks on Cressing Temple, Coggeshall and Peldon; he was an accomplice in the murder of John Ewell, and he carried the admiralty documents on a pitchfork to Mile End and back. | Mile End,Middlesex; Peldon,Essex; Cressing Temple,Witham Hundred,Essex; Coggeshall,Essex | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 4086 | John Coggeshall takes possession of the royal manor of Bradwell on the order of John Hende | John Coggeshale of Rivenhall on Thursday 27 June 1381, namely on the order of John Hende, citizen of London, as attorney of the same John, entered into the manor of Bradwell, then being in the hand of the lord King, and took seisin in the aforesaid manor with all its pertinences in the name of the aforesaid John Hende, and seized the revenues and profits of the same manor, for the use of the aforesaid John, from the aforesaid Thursday etc, until the following Michaelmas, it was said to the tenants of the same manor that they were to be intendant and answerable to the aforesaid John Hende as their lord of the aforesaid manor. And they say that the same John Hende made and appointed John Hurt his attorney to have regard for the aforesaid seisin and that the same John Hurt, Henry Stork, John Spencer, John Grigge and John Cogeshale broke down the door of the dovecote and took and carried away the pigeons, and seized all the profits of the said manor for the use of the aforesaid John Hende, from the aforesaid day to the following Michaelmas when Robert de Goldyngton, escheator of the lord King seized back said manor. And they say also that a certain William Golyrone, one tenant of said manor died in the meantime. And that the aforesaid John and the others refused to allow him to be buried until the aforesaid John Hende was seisin of a certain heriot. Hende and Coggeshall plead not guilty; acquitted. | Bradwell juxta Coggeshall,Witham Hundred,Essex | Escheator | View Incident page | ||
| 4581 | Commission to enquire into deaths of John Clerk of Ewell, William Richard his clerk, John Clerk of Ingatestone and Nicholas Davenant | Commission to Robert de Veer, earl of Oxford, Aubrey de Veer, Robert Tresilian, Richard Waldegrave, Robert Marny, David Hanemer, Robert Gedyngton, Richard Wythermerssh and Henry Spark, to enquire touching the deaths in Essex of John Clerk of Ewell, escheator in the county of Essex, William Richard, his clerk, John Clerk of Thynge atte Stone [Ingatestone] and Nicholas Davenant. | Essex | Victim | View Incident page |
Biographical Information
None foundRelationships
| person 1 | relationship with person 2 | person 2 | relationship with person 1 | Certainty | Sources | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Ewell ( 18909 ) | Son | John Ewell ( 12716 ) | Father | Certain |
