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Participant

First nameJohn
Last nameStaunford
GenderMale
OccupationSaddler
DomicileLondon
SourceTNA E 153/2098 m. 5

Incidents

IDSummaryDescriptionLocationRoleChargesComments on roleView incident
2780Attack on house of William Bateman at Cockayne Hatley and DuntonClose and houses of William Bateman at Cockayne Hatley and Dunton attacked. Crops, goods and chattels seized and carried away.Dunton,BedfordshireAccusedView Incident page
2859Escheator inquisition (Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire)Unspecified acts of treason and felonies during the rising.CambridgeshireAccusedJohn Staunford received a pardon 4 November 1381 [TNA C 67/29 m. 39]. View Incident page
3533John Staunford threatens Thomas Cavell and John Topclyve, and carries a false commission from the kingStaine, Wetherley, Armingford. The juries of the aforesaid hundreds say that John Staunford, saddler, of London, was a common leader and notorious congregator of wrongdoers in the pulling down and burning of the houses of neighbours, and threatened Thomas Cavell, John Topclyve, and other faithful men of the king in the county of Cambridgeshire, so that they dared not remain in their own houses. And he said that he had a commission from the king in a certain chest to destroy the traitors of the king and to do many other things. And the same John is indicted for the same crimes by the aforesaid hundred of Wetherley.CambridgeshireAccusedView Incident page
3534John Staunford steals a horse from Thomas North[The jurors] also say that the same John Staunford feloniously entered the close of Thomas North at Abington Pigotts, and seized a horse worth 2 marks, on Saturday 15th June 1381. Abington Pigotts,CambridgeshireAccusedView Incident page
3623Order to sheriff to issue writs of exigent for Thomas Furbour and numerous other Cambridgeshire rebelsThey are ordered to appear before the justices at Cambridge on Weds 9th January 1382. Regarding Richard Martyn, John Refham, William Smyth of Waterbeach, John Beverage, Thomas Stowe, cordwainer, Henry Rande, John Barbour, John Saffrey, John Kempe, John Staunford, John Norhampton, John Cook, John Prat, Geoffrey Cobbe and Robert Brygham, the sheriff returns that his predecessor Henry Englyssh, released to him a signed writ of exigent, therefore no further action is taken against them. And regarding Henry Refham, Lorkyn Bernard and Almaric Fede, the same sheriff returns that his aforesaid predecessor released to him a signed indenture made between them stating that those indicated gave themselves up and remain in custody. The others do not appear and are outlawed.CambridgeshireAccusedView Incident page

Biographical Information

DateLocationInfoSourceCommentImage
25/06/1370LondonDebtor: Roger Nordon, of Devon. Creditor: John de Fulham, citizen and skinner [merchant] of London, John Stanford, saddler, John Gift, and Robert Goodrich, skinner of London. Amount: £62. Before whom: William Walworth, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster. When taken: 11/03/1370 First term: 03/06/1370 Last term: 03/06/1370 Writ to: Sheriff of Devon Sent by: William Walworth, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster. EndorsementTNA C 241/151/82

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