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Participant

First nameThomas
Last nameGyles
GenderMale
DomicileLoose,Kent
SourceTNA KB 145/3/5/1 (a)

Incidents

IDSummaryDescriptionLocationRoleChargesComments on roleView incident
2638Insurrection of Thomas Hardyng and others at Linton, 30 September, 1381(Flaherty, 1861, items I & II). Thomas Hardyng and 15 others rose at Linton on 30 September 1381, conspiring the deaths of the king, Sir Thomas Cobham, Sir William Septvans (the Sheriff), and others, and to burn Maidstone, and coerced two other men into joining them. They were apprehended on 8 October. Hardyng and nine others were tried, found guilty and sentenced to death on 15 October. One, Robert Munselowe, was found not guilty, but was detained in custody. Two others were remanded to the Tower without being charged. The trial of two others was deferred to 18 Nov, and one of these, John Cote, made a confession on 7 Oct 1381 (see Incident 2639).Linton,KentAccusedView Incident page
2739Escheator account (Kent)Valuation of goods and chattels, land and tenements of traitors and fugitives.KentAccusedThomas Gyles, weaver, of Loose received a pardon 23 April 1382 [TNA C 67/29 m. 29].View Incident page
3496Pardon for the rebelsPardon for the rebels, granted under the terms sanctioned by parliament in November 1381PardonedView Incident page
4060Confession of William DeltonWilliam Delton describes the meeting of Thomas Hardyng and others at Linton and how they conspired to kill Thomas Colepepir, Thomas Trevet and John Freningham. They planned to be joined by Nicholas Bekes who would bring with him 32 armed men and 60 archers from Romney Marsh, and 18 more armed men were expected from Charing, near Ashford. The same Nicholas Bekes was also intended to be sent as a spy into the courts of noble men, in order to create dissent between the king and his lords, with the intent to 'destroy the party of the king'. Finally, they planned to send a man called Roger Sprynger of Cobham into Essex to foment revolt in that county. Charing,Kent; Romney, Old Or New ,Kent; Linton,Kent; Cobham,KentAccusedView Incident page
4060Confession of William DeltonWilliam Delton describes the meeting of Thomas Hardyng and others at Linton and how they conspired to kill Thomas Colepepir, Thomas Trevet and John Freningham. They planned to be joined by Nicholas Bekes who would bring with him 32 armed men and 60 archers from Romney Marsh, and 18 more armed men were expected from Charing, near Ashford. The same Nicholas Bekes was also intended to be sent as a spy into the courts of noble men, in order to create dissent between the king and his lords, with the intent to 'destroy the party of the king'. Finally, they planned to send a man called Roger Sprynger of Cobham into Essex to foment revolt in that county. Romney, Old Or New ,Kent; Linton,Kent; Cobham,Kent; Charing,KentAccusedView Incident page

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