The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | Richard |
| Last name | Boston |
| Gender | Male |
| Domicile | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding |
| Source | TNA CPR 1381-1385 p. 493 |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3716 | Petition from the people of Beverley | [The petition is badly stained and difficult to follow].The petitioners request remedy as the rebels have caused raised the commons against the wealthy of the town and assaulted the houses of the great of the town, and taken ransoms. In addition they have taken the common seal and sealed obligations in great sums, and imprisoned Buddeby who had sued a bill against them though he was under the king's protection. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3775 | Writ to Richard de Bostan concerning bonds in Beverley | Writ of Richard II to Bostan commanding him to obtain certain bonds which are in the common chest of the town of Beverley and take them with Manby, Ithoun and Richard and Thomas White and appear before the king in the octave of Easter. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Mentioned | View Incident page | ||
| 3789 | Writ to the provost of Beverley ordering the arrest Thomas Whyte, Henry de Neuwark and Richard de Bostan | Writ of Richard II to the provost of Beverley ordering him to take White, Newark and Boston, and have them before the king before the Latin Gate on the Monday next after the feast of St John. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3790 | Writ to Robert de Thornton ordering him to take Thomas White, Henry de Newark and Richard de Bostan | Writ of Richard II to Thornton ordering him to take White, Newark and Boston, and have them before the king on the Monday next after the feast of St John 'ante portam latinum'. Response of Robert de Thornton, bailiff of the liberty of St Peter of Beverley:White, Newark and Boston were not found in the bailiwick after the reception of the writ. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3791 | Writ to Robert de Botemond ordering him to arrest Thomas Whyte, Henry de Neuwerk and Richard de Bostan | Writ of Richard II to the bailiff of the liberty of the chapter of Beverley, ordering him to arrest Whyte, Neuwerk and Bostan, and have them before the king in Chancery on Monday after the feast of St John before the Latin Gate next (5 May 1382). The king understands that Coppendale, Beverle, Gerveys, Dudhill and other men of Beverley have been forced, by fear of death, to make bonds with Middelton, Whyte and Neuwerk in large sums of money, and therefore they, and Bostan, who has custody of those bonds, have been ordered by writs of precipimus to bring them into Chancery and show reason why they should not be annulled. However, Whyte, Neuwerk and Bostan have maliciously and deliberately left the town, and thus the messenger could not deliver the writs. Response: Response of Robert de Botemond, bailiff of the liberty of the church of St John of Beverley that he is not able to take them for fear of death. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3798 | Writ to William de Erghom ordering the arrest of Thomas Whyte, Henry de Neuwerk and Richard de Bostan | Writ of Richard II to the sheriff ordering him to take Whyte, Neuwerk and Bostan, and have them before the king on the Monday next after the feast of St John ante portam latinum. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3800 | List of names of those forced to pay money to Richard de Middilton, Henry de Newerk, Thomas White and Richard Bostan | List of names of those forced to pay sums by force and duress to Richard de Middilton, lately alderman of Beverley, Henry de Newerk and Thomas White, tiler, lately chamberlains of Beverley, Richard Bostan and other rebels who are now fled to Westminster, by good men of the same town. Item the aforesaid burgesses and others paid 100 marks to the aforesaid Middilton, Newerk, White, Bostan and others for the king's marriage and 24 marks as costs whereof none was paid to the king. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3805 | Memorandum concerning those involved in the disturbance in Beverley | Memorandum detailing part of the process of the complaint of Adam Coppendale and others. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3806 | Writ to Thomas de Manby and others ordering the appearance of Richard Middelton and others in Chancery | Writ of Richard II to Manby, Cartwryght and Ithoun to have Middelton, White and Neuwark and the writings that they have in their possession before the king in Chancery on 3 March next to answer to the king for the contempts made to the king and the damage done to his lieges. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Mentioned | View Incident page | ||
| 3808 | Writ to the Archbishop of York ordering him to arrest Thomas Whyte, Henry Neuwerk and Richard Bostan | Writ of Richard II to the archbishop commanding him to take and arrest Whyte, Neuwerk and Bostan wherever they can be found in the archbishop's liberty of Beverley, and have them before the king at Monday next after the feast of St John before the Latin Gate to answer concerning the taking of bonds from Coppendale and other good people of Beverley. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 3917 | Threats against William Sudhill of Beverley | Threats to life and limb and of the burning of houses made against William Sudhill of Beverley | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 4613 | Pardon to John Rasin for killing of Richard Boston | Pardon, at the instance of the king's kinsman, the earl of Northumberland, to John Rasin for the death of Richard Boston of Beverley, a rebel and chief captain in the late insurrection there. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Victim | View Incident page | ||
| 4629 | Order concerning disturbances in Beverley | Order to Thomas de Manby and chamberlains of Beverley to cause Richard de Middelton, Thomas White, Henry de Neuwerk and Richard de Bostan to be in Chancery with the bonds they extracted by threats of violence from Adam Coppendale, Thomas de Beverley, John Gerveys, William Dudhill and other true men of the town of Beverley. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 4630 | Order concerning disturbances in Beverley | Order to Thomas Whyte, tiler and late chamberlain of Beverley concerning forced bonds taken from Adam Coppendale, Thomas de Beverley, John Gerveys, William Dudhille and other men of Beverley during the recent disturbances in the town, which are kept in the common chest. Thomas Whyte, Thomas de Manby, William Ithoun, Richard de Middelton and Henry Newarke are ordered to appear in Chancery with the said bonds. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page | ||
| 4632 | Order to Richard Middelton and others to be in Chancery | Order to Richard Middelton and others to be in Chancery on Thursday after St Peter's Chains to answer touching the matters hereinafter mentioned and others then to be laid before them; as the king is informed that John Rigton, butcher, Walter Walthef and great number of other lieges of the town were by duress compelled for fear of their lives to pay them great sums, which they year withhold in contempt of the king. | Beverley,Yorkshire East Riding | Accused | View Incident page |
