The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | William |
| Last name | Makenade |
| Gender | Male |
| Domicile | Preston,Kent |
| Source | TNA JUST 1/400 m. 19 |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2607 | John Gardener gives aid to rebels in Kent and attacks house of William Makenade | They also present, that when certain levies and insurrections were made by certain contentious [emulos] and unknown men about Dartford, on Wednesday before the feast of the Holy Trinity, in the fourth year of the reign of Richard the Second (5th June, 1381), against our said Lord the King, and his people, to the exceeding great injury of his peace, and when they congregated and betook themselves towards Canterbury, committing exceeding great damage, to wit, even to killing some of the lieges of our said Lord the King, pulling down the houses of some, plundering the gaols of our Lord the King at Maidstone and Rochester, and setting free the felons of our said Lord the King who were manacled with irons in the foresaid gaols, and perpetrating other treasons of the same kind; one John Gardener, tailor, of Faversham, went and met them, on Monday after the feast of the Holy Trinity, in the foresaid year (10th June, 1381), he well knowing that they had perpetrated the foresaid felonies and treasons, and rendered them aid and favour, at Preston-next-Faversham, and he, together with many others unknown, entered the close of William Makenade, at Preston-next-Faversham, and there made an assault upon him, insomuch that unless Jacob de Frogenale and Thomas Seyntleger, had become bail for the foresaid William, to fulfil the requirements of the said John, which he was thereafter to explain to him, the said William would not have escaped death there. | Preston,Kent | Victim | View Incident page |
Biographical Information
| Date | Location | Info | Source | Comment | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Makenade was very active as one of the feofees responsible for acquiring property for the new Rochester Bridge in the 1390s, working closely with Sir Robert Knolles, Sir John Cobham, Reginald de Cobham and Ralph de Cobham: Traffic and Politics: The Construction and Management of Rochester Bridge, AD 43-1993, ed Nigel Yates and James Gibson (Boydell, 1994), pp. 53-7. | |||||
| Makenade was a justice of the peace in Kent: CPR 1396-9, pp. 237, 488 |
