Break-in at Canterbury Castle and attack on William Septvantz, sheriff of Kent
[The jurors] also say that John Hales, John Thacham, Richard Derby, of Wincheap [Wynchepe], Abel de Erhethe, and other unknown malefactors, made insurrection, on Monday next after the feast of the Holy Trinity, in the fourth year (10th June, 1381), by force and arms, and feloniously broke into the Castle of our Lord the King, in Canterbury, and carried away divers felons that were in the said castle and prison, and took William Septvantz, the sheriff of Kent, and dragged him away with them, and compelled him to deliver to them the books and writs of our Lord the King, and immediately that they were delivered they burnt them, to the prejudice of our Lord the King, and his Crown.
