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Participant

First nameWilliam
Last nameThornton
GenderMale
SourceTNA KB 27/484 rex m. 1

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IDSummaryDescriptionLocationRoleChargesComments on roleView incident
4214William Plomer burns the Savoy and the Hospital of St JohnWilliam Plomer of Greenwich, at the same time with other traitors of the lord king, feloniously and traitorously made an insurrection against the lord king and his faithful subjects on Thursday 13 June 1381, and set fire to the houses of John, duke of Lancaster, at the Savoy in the county of Middlesex, and the houses and church of St John of Jerusalem in England at Smithfield, and was the principal actor in the aforesaid insurrection. He produces a pardon, is mainprised and goes free.Hospital of St John,Clerkenwell,Middlesex; Savoy Palace,MiddlesexMainpernorView Incident page

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