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Participant

First nameRichard
Last nameSwonn
GenderMale
DomicileEly,Cambridgeshire
SourceTNA JUST 1/103 m. 10

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IDSummaryDescriptionLocationRoleChargesComments on roleView incident
3640Richard de Leycestre orders others to come with him to the monastery of Ely[The jurors] also say that the same Richard [de Leycestre] on the Sunday following commanded John Shethere of Ely, Elias Glovere, John Dassh, skinner, John Tylneye, wright, and John Redere of Ely, Thomas Litstere of Ely, Richard Swonn of Ely and John Milnere of Ely and many others of the commons there assembled, that they should go with him to the monastery of Ely to stand with him, while he, in the pulpit of the same monastery, should declare to them and all others the matters to be performed on behalf of King Richard and the commons against traitors and other disloyal men, and this under pain of the burning of their houses and the taking off of their heads; and so the same Richard [de Leycestre] was a notorious leader and assembler feloniously, and committed all the aforesaid acts to the prejudice of the crown of the lord the King. Ely Abbey,Ely,CambridgeshireAccusedView Incident page

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