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Participant

First nameJohn
Last nameCook
GenderMale
DomicileBarton,Wetherley Hundred,Cambridgeshire
SourceTNA JUST 1/103 m. 3d

Incidents

IDSummaryDescriptionLocationRoleChargesComments on roleView incident
2860Escheator inquisition (Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire)Unspecified acts of treason and felonies during the rising.CambridgeshireAccusedJohn Cook received a pardon 12 December 1381 [TNA C 67/29 m. 36].View Incident page
3496Pardon for the rebelsPardon for the rebels, granted under the terms sanctioned by parliament in November 1381PardonedView Incident page
3531John Cook and John the blacksmith aid the plundering of Geoffrey Michel[The jurors] also say that John Cook of Barton and John, blacksmith of the lord Scales were the chief leaders and wrongdoers in the aforesaid felony committed against Geoffrey Michel. Arrington,CambridgeshireAccusedView Incident page
3532John Cook plunders John Walter and Thomas Elleswurth, and leads rebels at Swavesey and Fen DraytonAlso that the same John Cook of Barton was a leader of felons, and that he with others, on Sunday 16th June 1381 feloniously broke into the close of John Walter at Croydon and seized and carried away his goods and chattels to the value of 40 s. And that the same John, on the same day, was the congregator and leader of the people who despoiled Thomas Elleswurth at Elsworth, against the king's peace. And that the same John was the insurgent of the assemblies at Swavesey and Fen Drayton, and led the said assemblies with him to Fen Stanton in the county of Huntingdonshire etc. treasonably etc. Elsworth,Cambridgeshire; Fen Drayton,Cambridgeshire; Swavesey,Cambridgeshire; Croydon,Armingford Hundred,CambridgeshireAccusedView Incident page
3538William atte Ree, William Shepherde, John Cook and John Prat break the close of John WalterArmingford. The jurors say that William atte Ree of Steeple Morden and William Shepherde servant of Geoffery Cobbe, together with others unknown, and with John Cook of Barton, leader of felons, and John Prat servant of Geoffery Cobbe, on Monday 17th June 1381, with force and arms feloniously broke into the close of John Walter at Croydon, and seized and carried away his goods and chattels to the value of 40 s. And that the same John Prat assaulted the wife of the said John Walter, and seized the keys of his chamber, and entered it; and that he is a common malefactor. And that the said William atte Ree organised the aforesaid wrongdoers and others to burn the buildings of the said John Walter, but they were not burnt. Croydon,Armingford Hundred,CambridgeshireAccusedView Incident page

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