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THE
RISING IN EAST ANGLIA
IN
1381
WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING
THE SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS
FOR THAT YEAR.

BY

EDGAR POWELL, B.A.

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PREFACE.

T~\URIXG a search among the archives at the Public
-"-' Record Office, in connection with a work of a genea
logical and topographical nature relating to the County of
Suffolk, I discovered that there were many unpublished
records in existence which throw a considerable amount of
fresh light on that very interesting crisis of our social history
known as the Peasants' Rising in 1381.
After a careful perusal of these and a search through the
more likely classes of MSS. at the Museum and elsewhere, I
embodied the results of my work in a paper, treating of the
Rising in Suffolk only, which I read before the Royal
Historical Society in 1S94.
A further search has enabled me to extend the narrative
so as to embrace the incidents of the revolt, as far as I have
been able to trace them, in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk
and Cambridgeshire, and thus to render the account both
more complete and more interesting.
The hope that such a compilation may be of some use to
historians and others interested in this period of English
History must be my apology for offering it to the public.
In the first appendix will be found transcripts of a series
of documents, which I think can hardly fail to be of interest
to students of fourteenth-century history, namely the lists
of the inhabitants of the villages and towns in Suffolk, made
by the collectors of the Poll Tax of 1381.

VI PREFACE.
The special and distinct importance of such documents
lies in the fact that they give so much detailed information
as to the condition and occupations of the inhabitants of the
country villages, from the wealthy manorial lord, such as he
whose household is enumerated at Stowlangtoft, down to the
humblest serf on his manor.
It is to be regretted that so many of these records
have perished ; those given here, which refer only to some
fifty places, are all that are now extant for a county
which contained not far short of five hundred parishes.
The final return of the results of the Poll Tax of 1381
gives a census of the population of the various counties in
England, and this return, together with that of the Poll Tax
of 1377, will be found given in a tabular form.
The second appendix contains transcripts from various
authorities cited.
E. POWELL.
December, 1895.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Preface  ; -
Introduction 
An Account of the Rising in Suffolk
„ „ „ Norfolk .
„ „ „ cambridgeshire
General Remarks on the Rising in East Anglia

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26
41
57

Appendix I.
Aualysis of the population of the Hundred of Thiugo in 1381
SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS.

67

PAGE

PAGE
Barrow ....
67
Harleston
98
Benacre
116
Hawsted
74
Bregg .
117
Hengrave
75
Broeldey
69
Hinderclay .
105
Bulehamp
117
Horningsheath Magna .
76
Buxhall .
92
Horningsheath Parva .
77
Buxlow .
115
Ickworth
78
Chevington
70
Ixworth Thorpe
106
Combes .
99
Kessingland .
115
Dagworth
97
Knattishall
104
Euston .
103
Lackford
.
79
Fakenham Magna .
102
Langham
.
107
Finborough Magna
91
Mildenhall
85
Flempton
71
Nowton .
80
Fornham All Saints
72
Old Newton
95
Gipping Newton .
97
Onehouse
.
98
Hadleigb.
111
Reed
.
69
Hargrave
73
Risby
82
Vlll

Saxham Magna
Saxham Parva
ShetlandStowlangtoftStowmarket
Thorney Thwaite

CONTENTS.

PAGE

PAGE

80

West Creting .

94

81

Westley ....

83

98

Wetherden

95

. 109

Whepsted

84

89

Wordwell

. 110

. 101

. 114
Unidentified (2)
117, 119
Table showing population of England as returned in 1377
and 1381  120
Table showing clerical population of England and AVales, 1381 123
Appendix II.
Transcripts of various Indictments ...... 126
Extracts from Assize Roll 103 .. . ... 136
Transcripts from Cottonian MS. Claudius A. XII . . 138
Escheator's Inquisition as to the property of Thomas Sampson 143
Index .
147
NTRODUCTTON.

Though much of the subsequent improvement in the
conditions of life among the rural population of England was
doubtless originally due to the yavages of the Black Death in
1348_ajjiJL3i>l, yet the more immediate effect of that
catastrophe, during the complete disorganisation of all social
relations which followed in its wake, was rather to check for
the time being the process of amelioration which had been
going on.
In the country districts the sudden sweeping away of
nearly one-half of the population had rendered the supply
of agricultural labour exceedingly scarce, and the inevitable
demand for higher wages had at once followed. The stubborn
refusal, however, on the part of the landowners to pay the
higher rate necessary under the new conditions of life, and
the equally stubborn refusal on the part of the labourers to
work at the old, had brought the business, of _ agriculture
almost to a standstill. Alarmed at the gravity of the situa
tion the Legislature stepped in and limited by statute the
legal wages to be received by labourers, artisans, and ser
vants, and by punitive measures against those who gave or
received any higher, endeavoured to force downwages to the
li now Jn^osjsjHe_ratej3_vv^^
This legislation, though practically a failure for the object
for which it was designed, had the effect of exasperating to
the last degree a large class of the community, and by
extorting from them, great sums in fines subjected their
respect for law and order almost to the breaking strain.
Notwithstanding the rigour of the statutes, the condition
of the labourers at this time appears to have been one of
considerable prosperity, and one in which, to judge from the
description given in the Vision of Piers the Plowman in
p. 1

2 INTRODUCTION.
1377 \ the standard of comfort was fairly high. They had
thus arrived as a class at a condition in which oppression
and continued extortion were well calculated to produce
dangerous results.
When, indeed, we consider how large was the class which
these statutes affected, and the great severity with which
they curtailed personal liberty — even going the length of the
revolting cruelty of branding the foreheads of those who
infringed them with an F for falsity 2 — we can only wonder,
not so much at the outbreak of an insurrection, as that it
should have been so long delayed.
A glance at the Poll. Tax schedules for the hundred of
Thingo (see Appendix, p. 67), where the inhabitants are
arranged in classes as labourers, artificers, and servants (a
Ternnnology similar to that of the statutes), will show that
out of a total of 870 names, no less than 808 came under
the three classes aimed at by the statutes; and I think
we may fairly infer some such proportion would hold good
throughout the country districts, at all events in East
Anglia. The amount of money wrung by these means from
the above-mentioned classes was very large, for we find
application made to Parliament for powers to utilise the
sums coming in under the statutes, for paying the taxes due
from a community, and other general purposes.
Already do we find that in__sejf^deien.ce,._the working-
classes had Jbegun to form .confederate clubs, the prototypes
of our modern trades-unions, whose object was to resist with
a strong hand the claims for customary labour due from the
holders of servile lands, which it appears the landlords owing
to the scarcity of labourers were now trying to enforce to the
utmost. In the struggle that eventually ensued we do not find
that the working-classes were left to fight alone, for Walsing-
ham's description of the insurgents as 'discaligati ribaldi,'
though doubtless true to a large extent, is far from beino-
1 Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, Passns vi. (Ed. Skeat, 1S74).
' This penalty could be enforced if the prosecuting party wished it. It was
however, ordered that the branding-iron should be kept in custody of the sheriff.
(See Statute 34 Ed. HI.)

INTRODUCTION. o
exhaustive. When we find such names as Richard Talmache
de Bentley, John Talmache, Esq., Sir Thomas Cornerd, Knt.,
Thomas Monchesey of Edwardstone, James de Bedyngfield, Sir
Roger Bacon, Knt., Thomas de Gissing, and others, all names
of well-known county families, among the active leaders of
revolt, we must admit that the popular party had obtained .
the active support and sympathy of a considerable j)roportion
of the country gentry^
A genuine sympathy for the working-classes, combined
with the strong aversion which they held, in common with
them, to the payment of the Poll Tax, may possibly account
for some of the better class giving- their active assistance to
the revolutionary party, but the movement was distinctly
against their interests as a class. Some indeed may have felt
the full force of the complaint, re-echoed in the Vision of
Piers the Plowman, 'Vse terrse ubi puer rex est,' and have
hoped that had success crowned their efforts some change
for the better governance of the realm might have been
brought, about.
The awful mortality during the Black Death had also, by
severing so much of the tradition of the past, given scope
for the growth of new ideas and aspirations, which, under
the impetus given them by the genius of the great reformer,
spread far and wide through the land. Indeed, the keen
criticisms of Church and State poured forth by travelling
priests such as John Balle — himself, it is said, a disciple of
Wiclif — found an eager audience among the working-classes,
and, being carried through the length and breadth of the
country7, left men's minds unsettled and expectant in every
department of life.
Nor were these social problems which called for solution
within the realm the only trouble with which the nation was
at this time confronted.
On_ the northern border the_savage incursions of the
Scots had devastated the land, so that indeed no return
for the Poll Tax appears TtohaveHbeen possible for the county
of Northumberland, and the townsmen of Penrith state that,
for the same reason, they were ' adeo depauperati,' that they
could only furnish seventy-five shillings to the collectors, 1—2

•* INTRODUCTION.
while the return of population for Cumberland, given as
11,800 in 132Z, is returned in 138J as only 4,700.
Nor were matters very_much better on the southern
shores of the island, where the frequent descents made on
fluTcoast by the French checked all industry and kept the
inhabitants in a state of continual alarm.
Distracted thus on all hands by difficulty and danger, the
country, after providing tax after tax without any apparent
benefit accruing, was called on by the Parliament which met
at Northampton in November 1380, to provide still further
for the expenses of a military expedition on the other side of
the Channel. This was done by means of a Poll Tax, to fully
collect which the ordinary methods appear to have failed,
and the rigorous means thereupon introduced to enforce
payment at once fanned into open flame the long smoulder
ing discontent which overspread the country.
I This tax, which forms so important a factor in the subject
before us, was to be charged at the rate of three groats, or
twelve pence, on every lay person male and female of the age
of fifteen years, beggars only excepted. Though the sum
total for each township was to be as many shillings as it
contained residents over the age of fifteen years, it was also
arranged that the richer members of each community should
pay more than the poorer, within the limits that no one
should pay more than sixty groats, or less than one groat, for
himself and his wife ; and no one could be charged except in
the township within which 'he and his wife and children
dwelt, or where he was domiciled if in service.' The proceeds
of the tax were to be paid into the Treasury in two sums,
viz.: two-thirds were due in January 1380, and the remainder
in the following June [Rot. Pari. III. 90].
The procedure of the collection of the tax appears to
have been as follows. The collectors acting on the authority
of Letters Patent dated December 7, 1380. set to work at
once, and it seems for the most part collected the entire
subsidy of three groats per head at one collection, of which
amount they paid over two-thirds into the Treasury, furnish
ing at the same time an account of what the population in
each county amounted to, and of the money due. These

INTRODUCTION. •>
accounts, where extant, are preserved among the Exchequer
Lay Subsidies, and are arranged under counties as ' views of
accounts.' Though this collection was made with much
difficulty and delay, it does not appear to have met with any
organised resistance. But the amount collected was regarded
as very unsatisfactory.
On February^ 22, the king, with the advice of his council,
issued a writ to the Barons of the Exchequer1 in which he
states that the two-thirds already received had fallen so far
short of the amount anticipated as to be quite inadequate for
carrying out the ordinances made by Parliament for the safety
of the realm and support of the army abroad, and ordered
them, since he understood that the tax had been already
wholly levied2, to instruct the collectors to pay in at once all
the sums levied, and all they could still levy, on April 21,
instead of in June as originally ordered, in order thus to
avoid any mischief that might happen to the realm and army
through lack of funds.
When the disappointing nature of the results to be
obtained from the tax were fully realised, it became evident
that something was very wrong, and severe measures were
deemed necessary to rectify matters3. Accordingly on March
16, we find4 that the king, having satisfactory evidence in his
possession that the collectors had been guilty of gross negli
gence and favouritism in the performance of their duties,
commissioned a staff of inspectors__for each district named,
armed with large authority and powers of imprisonment, to
travel from place to place, scrutinising carefully the lists of
inhabitants, and forcibly compelTingpay^enFr^STEose who
' Jiad^evadedjt; before. This commission^ffiaaJb£iaDav^rIBa.lil£d
to thejpllowing districts.
Norfolk Hunts Notts and Derbyshire Canterbury Somerset
Suffolk Herts Devon and Cornwall Northants West Riding (Yorks)
Cambs Essex Kent Gloucestershire
1 Q. R. Memoranda Roll, 4 Riu. II., Brevia, m. xxv.
- L. T. R. Eurolled Accounts (Subs.) No. 13; under 'Villa Leycester,' 'quod
collectores idem subsidium integre levaverunt et collegerunt ut rex intellexit.'
3 The total amount which finally reached the Treasury for the Lay Poll Tax
of 1381 appears to have been £448-25. 14s. 3d. Lay Subsidies, Divers Counties,
VJS.P.R.O. * L. T. R. Orig., 4 Ric. II. m. 12 and 13.

INTRODUCTION.

Some of the appointments under this commission do not
seem to have been made till May, so perhaps no steps were
taken till after the time appointed to the collectors for
making their final payments1.
It appears that it was the action taken under this second
commission, regarded as it possibly may have been by the
people rather in the light of an attempt to extort a fresh
tax without the authority of Parliament, that was the more
' immediate cause of the outbreak.
Henry Knighton relates that the person who suggested
this latter course to the king was a certain John Leg whose
name appears as 'serviens ad arma regis' in the second com
mission, for the county of Kent, and no doubt the same
person whose death at the hands of the London mob is
related by Walsingham.
The enrolled accounts of this Poll Tax seem generally to
give the population in the several counties at a higher figure
than the first returns of the collectors, and in the districts
affected by the second commission this increase is very
noticeable indeed; but when we come to compare these totals
with those given in the enrolled accounts Tor the 4cZ. Poll
Tax of 1377 a niost remarkable diminution of the population

It will be best to give in a tabular form the results of
the three returns mentioned above, for the counties of Norfolk
and Suffolk. ^c/%<L

First returns made by

L.T.R. enrolled

L.T.R. enrolled

collectors 1:381

account 13S1

account 1377

Norfolk .

58,714

66,719

88,797

Norwich .

3,268

3,833

3,925

Lynn

1,757

1,824

3,127

Yarmouth

no separate return

no separate return

1,941

Suffolk . . .

31,734

44,635

58,610

Bury

no separate return

1,334

2,445

Ipswich

963

963

1,507

1 The account of one of the inspectors, Thomas Sayvill, who was sent to Notts
and Derbyshire, is extant. He left London on April 30, 13S1, and returned on
August 4, and his expenses were In. Gil. per day for the ninety-six days he was
away. Exch. Q. R. Misc. Y.r-
a See Appendix, p. 121.

^£o

INTRODUCTION.

foil Tax was also laid on the clergy at__this_timej,
charged on the higher grades at twenty groats, and on the
inferior clergy, over the age of sixteen at three groats, which
was to be paid in two sums, on February 22, 1381, and June
21 following. The large discrepancy between the returns of the popu
lation in 1377 and 1381 is to be accounted for, iiot^I think, on
the supposition tKatTtlie population had necessarily decreased,
though that may possibly have been the case, so much as
that in order to evade the Poll Tax collector, a large portion
of the inhabitants of "tEe towns "^nd~~vrIlagesMhad_left their
hoTneTanrT taEen^^a.-rpylngTSfe in, the. woods and wastes of
the country. The fact that no one could be legally charged
except at the place where he dwelt, may have encouraged a
process, which if it went on on a large scale, would certainly
have facilitated the work of the leaders of the popular party
in collecting their large bands of malcontents. The possi
bility too of bodies of men being able to move from place to
place, without being suspected of any motive ulterior to the
evasion of the tax, may perhaps account, partially at any rate,
for the country being taken so much by surprise, and so com
pletely at a disadvantage, when the outbreak came.
The following accounts of the proceedings in Suffolk and
Norfolk during the rising in 1381 are chiefly compiled from
the legal records of the proceedings taken against the rioters
after order was restored. These are to be found on the Coram
Rege Rolls of the period, and in the Antient Indictments
referring to these counties* From the latter class unfortu
nately all the Indictments taken at Bury St Edmunds, it is
stated, were handed over to Sir Thomas Morieux; and thus a
veryr large and interesting portion of the records for Suffolk
have been lost from the series. This gap has however been
filled to a certain extent, by the account given of the trans
actions at Bury and Mildenhall by John Gosford, almoner at
that time to the Abbey of Bury, and afterwards Prior. A
1 See Appendix, p. 123.
2 Both these classes of documents are in the Public Record Office. Bundle
12S of the Antient Indictments contains those referring to Suffolk and Norfolk,
and for the latter county appears to be complete.

o INTRODUCTION.
fifteenth-century transcript of his work is preserved in a
volume of the Cottonian MSS. in the British Museum, marked
Claudius, A. XII. On folio 81 of this volume begins the
'Registrum hostlarie Sancti Edmundi factum sive compilatum
per fratrem Andream Astone de diversis evidenciis anno
mccccxxvj'0 in quo continentur diversa subscripta sub hac
forma'; and on folio 1266 begins the account from which
I have drawn : it is headed thus — ' Electio domini Johannis
Tymworth in abbatem cum actibus provisoris et insurrectione
comunitatis cum dampnis horribilibus et malefactis perpe-
tratis priori conventui et monasterio Sancti Edmundi per
insurrectores de Bury prout scribitur per J. Gosford.'
Of that part of this MS. which refers to the riots in 1381
I have given a full transcript in Appendix II., p. 139.

CHAPTER I.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISING IN SUFFOLK.
The principal leader of the popular party in Suffolk, and,
indeed, it appears a chief mover and leading spirit in the
insurrection throughout the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk,
and Cambridgeshire, was a certain John Wrawe, of Sudbury,
described on the Coram Rege Rolls as a 'capellanus' or
chaplain. Thomas of Walsingham, who gives a long account of this
period, tells us that Wrawe had been in London immediately
before the outbreak in Suffolk, and in close intercourse with
Wat Tyler, the Kentish leader. Judging from subsequent
events, we may infer that they then finally decided that the
time for action had arrived, and arranged that the outbreak
should be simultaneous, as far as possible, in the districts over
which their organisation extended. After his final consulta
tion with Tyler, Wrawe returned immediately to Suffolk, and
in the town of Sudbury on Wednesday, June 12, 1381, gave
the first signal for revolt.
The opening scene in the terrible tragedy which ensued
during the month of June was laid at the little village of
Liston in Essex, which lies not far from the town of Long
Melford, and close on the borders of Suffolk.
To this spot on the 12th Wrawe directed his forces, being
it seems already in command of a large body of country
men, drawn chiefly from the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk,
Herts, and Essex. Immediately on his arrival he dispatched
emissaries to the neighbouring town of Sudbury, some three
miles distant, commanding all men of that town forthwith to

10 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
repair to him at Liston. Joined by such reinforcements as
arrived, the mob marched with one accord to the manor
house of Overhall. This they assailed with great fury and
completely wrecked, breaking in, we are told, both doors and
windows, and destroying the tiles on the roof.
In choosing the object for his first attack, Wrawe was no
doubt guided by a knowledge of what would best give the
popular discontent unanimous expression. This appears
more clearly when we find that the owner of this manor of
Overhall was Richard Lyons, a man who had obtained con
siderable, though unenviable, notoriety during the reign of
Edward the Third. In the Parliament of 1379-80 he appears
to have sat for Essex, but had previously been a farmer of
subsidies and money-lender to the king, in which capacity
he fell foul of the Parliament in 1376, and having been
impeached for various extensive frauds and peculations
was deprived of his lands and goods. These, however, he
managed eventually to regain, though, as was supposed at the
time, chiefly through the instrumentality of Alice Perrers, the
king's mistress. We can thus see why popular feeling may-
well have been so strong against him as to induce Wrawe to
select his house for the first attack. Lyons himself, indeed,
according to Henry Knighton's account, fell a -victim to the
popular fuiy in London. He certainly died on June 14, 1381,
for it is by means of his Inquisition post-mortem that he can
be identified as the owner of Overhall at Liston.
Stow, in his Chronicle, states that Richard Lyons was
a lapidary and wine-merchant of London, and Grafton's
Chronicle relates that he once had Wat Tyler dwelling with
him, presumably as apprentice, 'and on a tyme did beate
him,' so that in procuring his death we are led to infer that
Tyler was paying off an old grudge.
On the following day, Thursday, June 13, being the feast
of Corpus Christi, the mob proceeded to Cavendish, a villao-e
about six miles to the north-east of Sudbury, and John
Wrawe is again their leader. The attack here was directed
on the parish church, but not with any idea it would seem of
harming the edifice. They appear even to have taken the
trouble to procure the keys, through the felonious practices, we

RISING IN SUFFOLK. 1 I
are told, of Ralph Somerton, dyer of Sudbury, who thereupon
admitted John Wrawe and his crowd of followers into the
church, and led them to the belfry, where they had been
informed the goods of ' John de Cavendish, late Justice of our
Lord the King,' had been hidden away. These they at once
seized, taking away from the church tower, as we are told, a
' Jakke of Velvet,' price 26s. 8d., a silver candlestick worth
seven pounds, and other articles of value, which spoil Wrawe
was called upon to divide among his followers.
The fact that the king's justice should have found it
necessary to remove his valuables to the church for safe
custody, would seem to indicate that he knew himself to be
obnoxious to the people, and felt strongly the growing dis
content of the times.
After pillaging the church tower at Cavendish, Wrawe,
wishing to fortify his band for their all-important expedition
to Bury, led them at once to Melford Green, where, we are told,
they repaired to the tavern of one Onewene to refresh them
selves, and, as the roll quaintly tells us, ' adinvicem biberunt
unam pipam vini rubei,' of the price of seven marks, 35. id.,
which amount was, however, faithfully paid to the taverner
from the spoils already taken. After a short halt they again
set forth, this time taking the road to Bury St Edmunds,
which they reached the same day, though probably late in
the evening, the distance from Melford being about seventeen
miles. Arrived here, Wrawe lost no time in issuing a pro
clamation to the men of Bury, which one regrets much has
not been fully recorded. Its main point, however, at all
events from a legal point of view, seems to have been a
summons to the townsmen to meet him and his band in the
Southgate of Bury, and to act with them in all things, on
pain of instant decapitation if they gainsaid him. (Coram
Rege Roll, 484, Rex 26.)
The next morning (Friday, June 14) the mob, under the
command of John Wrawe, Robert Tavell, of Lavenham, and
John Talmache, Esquire, directed their attack on the house
of John de Cambridge, the prior of the abbey, which they
succeeded in breaking into and despoiled of its contents.
Meanwhile a detachment had been dispatched by John

12 AN ACCOUNT OP THE
Wrawe to Thetford under the command of Geoffrey Parfay,
vicar of All Saints, Sudbury, together with his chaplain
Thomas, and one Adam Bray, of Sudbury ; Thos. Monchesey,
of Edwardstone, Esquire, junior, being also mentioned as one
of the party. On their arrival there they summoned the
mayor, Simon Barbour, and the chief burgesses before them,
and levied blackmail on the town to the extent of forty marks
of gold, threatening that if the money was not paid down at
once, they would send to Bury and fetch John Wrawe and all
his band, who would burn their town about them.
From this incident we see the great terror which the
name of Wrawe inspired, for from the Norfolk indictments
referring to the same matter we learn that the whole band
who came to Thetford consisted of only seventeen men, a
force which one can hardly suppose the mayor and corpora
tion could have failed in giving a good account of had not
the name of Wrawe completely overawed the town.
On the same day, we learn from the Coram Rege Roll,
Sir Thomas Cornerd, Knight, took advantage of the occasion
to go over to Stansfield, near Bury, and entering the house of
one John Rokwood1 there, took from him the sum of five
marks, using threats similar to those Parfay had so success
fully employed at Thetford. Wrawe states that Cornerd's
little expedition was made without any authority from him,
though he did not scruple to benefit by it ; for it appears
Cornerd was only allowed to keep 40s. ' pro labore suo ' out
of the money taken, the rest falling to Wrawe, to whom it is
also recorded the money taken at Thetford, with the excep
tion of 41., was duly handed over.
Wrawe and his band at Bury, having wrecked the house
of the prior, proceeded to that of John de Cavendish in the
same town, which they subjected to similar treatment. Of
the spoil taken hence it is noted that Robert Tavell got
possession of a remarkable sword, described as 'unum
gladium argento harnesiatum et deauratum et perre2,' of the
value of a hundred marks. While his house was thus being
1 A Johannes de Rokwood was escheator for Norfolk and Suffolk in 1375
Rymer iii. 1044.
J ' Perre ' probably from the French, meaning set with stones.

RISING IN SUFFOLK. 13
ransacked at Bury St Edmunds, John de Cavendish himself
had had the misfortune to fall into the hands of another band
of rioters in the neighbourhood of Lakenheath, a parish lying-
in the fens beyond Mildenhall, some twenty miles to the
north-west of Bury. Owing to the fact that the indictments
taken at Bury have been lost from the series, I have not been
able to find a detailed account of Cavendish's capture and
death ; a list, however, of 104 of the malefactors is preserved1,
and in some cases the different parts they took in this tragedy
have been duly noted against their names. Also from the
Placita Coronas, at Mildenhall, on June 27 '\ we learn, on the
authority of John de Pole, late ' camerarius ' to John de Caven
dish, who there accused John Poter, of Somerton, of abetting
the murder, that it took place in the parish of Lakenheath,
and on June 14. We may suppose that the justice was
travelling on his round of duty in the district, but with too
weak an escort, and being surprised by a band of rioters was
compelled to fly for his life. Chief among his pursuers were
Stephen Martyn and Richard Rond, who, as the scribe has
noted, followed him ' usque ad mortem.' Perhaps thinking of
Ely as a refuge he directed his steps for the river, hoping
that by boat his chance of escape thither would be consider
ably enhanced, or that, could he even manage to put that
barrier between himself and his pursuers he might yet
manage to elude them.
At the water's edge, however, his object was cruelly frus
trated, and that too by a woman, for against the name of
Katharine Gamen, of Lakenheath, stands the following note —
'liberavit batellam de terra, perquod dictus Johannes de
Cavendish non potuit evadere mortem.' From which we
may gather that, seeing the pursuit, and divining the object
the unhappy man was straining every nerve to obtain, she
rushed for the boat, and by pushing it off into mid-stream
rendered escape in that direction impossible. The final scene
in the tragedy probably followed immediately. The justice
was soon seized by one John Pedder, of Fordham, and on the
i The list contains the names of those whose indictments were taken at Bury
St Edmunds.
2 See Appendix, p. 126.

14 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
arrival of the mob was beheaded forthwith, one Matthew
Miller, we are told, performing the horrid office of executioner.
Cavendish's head was then carried back by the mob to Bury,
and placed over the pillory there.
It has been often stated that the murder of John de
Cavendish was committed by the insurgents in revenge for
the death of Wat Tyler, who is said by some to have been
finally dispatched by the justice's younger son. This I think
can hardly have been the reason, as, on examining the
evidences of the dates, it appears that Tyler's death did not
take place till after that of Cavendish.
The real clue to the justice's unpopularity among the
peasant class is, I think, given on the rolls of Parliament,
where it appears he was granted extra salary as a justice for
enforcing the Statutes of Labourers in the counties of Suffolk
and Essex.
He was, as we have seen, a resident in the county, and
he died seized of the manor of Overhall at Cavendish and a
small estate there. He was also chancellor of the University
of Cambridge, an office now held by his lineal descendant.
On the same day (June 14) we have an instance of what
would seem to be an attempt to right some grievous private
wrong with the aid of the rioters. For we find Simon, the
vicar of Mildenhall ', was arrested on charge of having, with
some others, insulted Ralph Attwyk, the Cambridgeshire
.escheator, at his house at Newmarket, and threatened to
behead him unless he gave up the daughter of Ralph de
Walsham, of Mildenhall, who had lately been earned off2.
In order to understand correctly the action in Bury and
the district during this period, it will be necessary to take a
short review of the interesting events which had occurred in
connection with the town and monastery during the two •
years previous to the rising.
On December 30, 13783, had died, at his house at
Elmswell, John Brynkele, abbot of the monastery, and after
1 From the Tanner MSS. at Norwich ' Symon Domynyk ' appears to have been
Vicar from 1375-1408.
2 Assize Roll 103, m. 5 d.
8 So given on Coram Rege Roll, 476, Rex 1, but Gosford gives the date 1379.

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his burial in St Mary's Chapel the prior and convent, having
obtained leave of the king, proceeded according to custom
to elect his successor. After some delay their choice fell
upon one John Tymworth, then occupying the position of
sub-prior, who with great difficulty was prevailed on to
accept the post.
It was now necessary to obtain the pope's continuation to
make the election valid, so Tymworth, having been forbidden
by the king to leave the country, sent off two monks of his
house to Rome to obtain the needful documents. These
men left Bury on February 10, and arrived at Rome on
April 4 following, occupying a little more than seven weeks
in the journey. Arrived here, they7 were very7 kindly received
and entertained by the pope, but when it came to talking of
the business of their mission, they" met with nothing but fair
words and endless delay. The reason for this treatment they
soon found out, namely, that the pope had granted the
abbacy to a provisor, one Edmund Brounfeld, a Bur}7 monk,
who had been in residence at Rome as procurator-general
for the order of Benedictines in England, and who, having
obtained by express messenger the news of the abbot's death,
was now well on his way back to England with his credentials
and bulls from the pope.
When the news of Brounfeld's return to England reached
his adherents among the monks at Bury, their first move was
made at a chapter-meeting in the abbey', when one of them
got up and endeavoured to read the papal bulls appointing
their leader abbot. The prior, finding the documents lengthy,
asked to have them to peruse at leisure, which being refused,
he moved to adjourn the meeting for divine service, where-
. upon arose a fracas in the chapter-house, in which the prior,
according to Gosford's account, was somewhat roughly
handled. Eventually the provisor's party, defying the prior's
authority, left the abbey without leave and went out to the
parochial churches in the town, there relating their grievances
to the populace, and alleging that the prior and his party
had attacked them with murderous intent in the chapter- .
1 See Appendix, p. 138.

16 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
house and cruelly ill-used them. Thus by enlisting on their
side the sympathies of the good people of Bury, who were
always, it would seem, glad enough of an opportunity to
testify their antipathy to the monastery, they managed to
persuade them to take an active part on the provisor's side
in the quarrel which ensued.
Reinforced by the Bury populace, among whom we may
note the names of Thomas Halesworth, Robert Westbron,
John Clakke, John Smyth, parson of Stansfield, and Walter,
parson of Ixworth, they returned to the abbey, and, having
forced their way into the building, succeeded in reading the
bulls from the steps of the high altar. On the third day
after this Brounfeld himself, who had been hiding at the
Carmelites' house in Ipswich, arrived on the scene, and, with
the help of the townspeople and of his own party among the
monks, was eventually installed as abbot, and the day fol
lowing celebrated mass with mitre and staff.
Of the monks within the abbey we learn that forty-two
were on the side of the prior and seventeen on that of
Brounfeld, and between these two parties continual strife
ensued, and most unseemly conduct is graphically related by
Gosford as going on within the precincts.
News of these transactions, however, soon reached the
king, who at once dispatched his officers to bring Brounfeld
to London, where he was tried and condemned under the
Statute against provisors, and sent prisoner to the Tower1.
Many of the leaders among the townsfolk were also tried
and condemned for the share they had taken in the late riots,
and were finally severally bound over in large sums of money
from entering the abbey precincts or in any way molesting
or interfering with the prior or his dependants.
Actual violence between the town and monastery was
thus for a time forcibly suppressed, but the ill-feeling between
them continued as strong as ever, and only waited for a
suitable opportunity to again break out into open hostilities.
Great, then, must have been the consternation within the
1 Brounfeld appears to have been coulined also at Corfe Castle, and at
Nottingham.

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monastery when, in the summer of 1381, the collection of
the poll tax threw the whole county into open insurrection.
It would seem that news of the approach of the rioters
from the south under John Wrawe was brought to the prior,
John de Cambridge, some time during the afternoon of June
13, 1381. Knowing, it would seem, that any effective defence
of the monastery was out of the question, and feeling that
the temper of the townsfolk rendered his position an ex
ceedingly dangerous one, he decided to leave the monastery,
and, waiting till nightfall, fled under cover of darkness to
the house of a certain faithful servant of the monastery at
Mildenhall, a town some twelve miles to the north-west,
where he hoped to be able to remain in hiding till law and
order could be again restored. Here he passed the night
and the following day, June 14, in great anxiety and sus
pense, which we can well imagine became almost insupport
able, as late in the day7 the rioters from Lakenheath were
probably pouring through the town on their way to Bury,
bearing with them the gory head of his old friend the justice.
Towards evening, we learn, it became evident to the
prior that to remain concealed much longer in Mildenhall
would be impossible, and, feeling that if he could only make
good his escape to Ely he would be at least in comparative
safety, he resolved to make the attempt to fly thither.
Waiting till dusk he set out on the journey, meaning to
take a boat and proceed by water ; on arriving, however, at
the place where he hoped to embark, he found himself con
fronted by a band of rioters, who not only refused to allow
him to enter the boat, but were with difficulty7 restrained from
attacking him with their swords. Having at length got clear
of these men, and after experiencing two or three very un
pleasant encounters with roving bands in the neighbourhood,
the prior and his guide directed their flight towards New
market, where they managed to conceal themselves for a while
in a wood about three miles from the town. Leaving the
prior in hiding, his guide set out, ostensibly, to obtain pro
visions, but having returned to Mildenhall, as Gosford relates,
he traitorously betrayed his master and informed the rioters
there, of whom a large portion were from Bury7, of the prior's
p. 2

18 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
whereabouts. On learning this the mob at once set out to
wards Newmarket, and a cordon having been formed round
the wood, some of their number, amid cries of ' Where lurks
the traitor?' advanced to seize the unhappy man, whom having
made prisoner they conducted to Newmarket. Here, we are
told, they all night long most blasphemously mocked him ;
kneeling before him they cried ' Hail, master ! ' and striking
him with their hands cried to him, 'Prophesy who smote thee.'
At break of day on Saturday, June 1-5, the rioters led their
victim back to Mildenhall, where they were joined by a large
conflux of people, probably being the mob under John
Wrawe, lately arrived from Bury, who on the appearance of
the prior raised a great cry of ' Kill the traitor ! ' ' Kill the
traitor ! ' Having led him about a mile from the town to a
place known as Mildenhall Heath, the leaders commanded
the prior to dismount. Here a council was held by the
men from Bury, in which Halesworth and Denham took a
leading part1, by which the prior was condemned to instant
execution ; which sentence, after allowing him the privilege
of confession to a monk of Mildenhall, was forthwith carried
out, his head being severed from his body at a single
blow. The headless corpse, we are told by Gosford, lay
unburied on Mildenhall Heath till the Thursday following,
none of the monks daring to take it away for fear of the
men of Bury, who held both him and them in the greatest
hatred. After the murder of the prior his head was placed on the
point of a lance and carried by the mob to Bury, where it
was met by an excited rabble of the populace with cries of
' See the traitor's head ! ' ' Happy the day that sees our wish
accomplished !'
A ghastly sort of play was then enacted with the head of
the prior and that of John de Cavendish, which had been
brought to Bury the night before, in mockery of the great
friendship which had existed between them in life • after
which the two heads were placed over the pillory, where they
remained till the arrival of the Earl of Suffolk, some eight
1 Coram Rege Roll 484, Rex 26.

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days afterwards. The reasons for the great detestation in
which the prk.r was held were, according to Walsingham, not
far to seek, as he had assiduously striven for the rights of
the monastery against the townsmen of Bury. He appears on
the same authority to have been a man of great intelligence
and cultivated taste, besides being an excellent musician.
His death cannot, perhaps, be looked upon as having been
a special object of, or directly compassed by, John Wrawe and
his bands of countrymen, but rather as brought about by
the men of Bury, led by Thomas Halesworth, Esq., and
Geoffrey Denham, Esq. (described on the Coram Rege Roll as
servants of the prior), in settlement of a long-standing
quarrel. Indeed Wrawe in his evidence makes a point of
saying that had it not been for Denham and Halesworth the
prior would never have been slain. Wrawe was, however,
present at the execution on Mildenhall Heath, having pro
bably found himself unable to withhold his support.
Their thirst for blood having been thoroughly excited, the
mob proceeded next to the monastery and demanded the
person of a monk named Walter de Totyngton. A search on
the Coram Rege Rolls [Coram Rege Roll 476, Rex 5] shows
that this Walter de Totyngton, alias Walter Colman, was tried
for the part he had taken in the election of Brounfeld, and
that it was he who dispatched an express to Rome to tell
Brounfeld of the abbot's death and advise him to take
immediate action. He thus appears as a strong partisan of
the provisor, whose cause the men of Bury had warmly es
poused, so that it seems curious they should now seek his
life; unless, indeed, the fact that the king had seen fit to
pardon him may have altered their feelings towards him.
Be that as it may7, when the mob arrived at the monastery
Brother Walter was nowhere to be found. Not to be thus
baulked, they next demand John de Lakenheath, the Gustos
Baronise, who, scorning to fly7, boldly proclaimed himself and
was handed over to the mob, who dragged him with great
violence to the market-place ; where his head, having been
barbarously hacked off with eight blows, was placed with the
others on the pillory.
This done, the whole mob, 'ilia maledicta comitiva,' as
2—2

20 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
Gosford calls them, were returning again to the monastery to
demand two more monks for execution, when a report went
round that Walter de Totyngton, against whom they had
especial spite, was in hiding at Rougham, on which they at
once diverted their course thither. After passing, however,
through the east gate, they espied, on looking back, a monk
standing in the bell tower above ; concluding that he was the
man they were in seaich of, the mob again suiged back to
the monastery7, and entering the building rushed through
the presbytery to the bell tower in pursuit of their victim.
Meanwhile the aforesaid two monks, who had learnt that the
mob intended their execution, owing to the excitement caused
by the man in the belfry were, we are told, completely for
gotten, and after expecting instant death for three hours and
more before the high altar, found themselves no further mo
lested ; thus, as Gosford remarks, ' Dei dementia non humana.
industria,' escaping the sacrilegious hands of the rioters.
The next day, being Sunday7, witnessed y7et another
execution, after which the townsmen went to the monastery
and demanded that all deeds and muniments which at all
concerned them should be given up, threatening that if their
request was not complied with they would bring the whole
rout of insurgents to slay all the monks and extirpate the
monastery. On Monday accordingly, at a meeting in the
Guildhall, the documents were handed over by the monks,
and an agreement was made between the subprior, who acted
as president for the time being, and the convent on the one
hand, and the townsmen on the other, to the effect that when
Edmund Brounfeld should enjoy the abbacy, he and the
convent should grant to the town not only their ancient
liberties, but also some further concessions which they would
subsequently ask. In pledge of fulfilment the convent had
to give up their valuable jewels and relics to the custody7 of
the town, and a brother of Brounfeld's had to become surety
that the provisor would perform his part of the covenant.
This agreement was made by the townsmen, thinkino- that
Brounfeld would succeed to the abbey at once, as they
heard that the Essex mob in London had compelled the
king to set him at liberty7.

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Events, however, not turning out as they expected, we
learn that the townsmen, fearing the king's hand, returned
both the jewels and documents to the monastery. The town
was nevertheless condemned to pay a fine of 2,000 marks, of
which the king had 1,000£. and the abbey 500 marks for the
injuries they had received.
While these events had been occurring in Bury and the
district, the other parts of the county had been faring equally
badly. On June 14 we find mention in the indictments of
depredations going on at the house of William Gerard, of
Watlesfield, by7 a band under Adam Rogges, bailiff of Aid-
ham. On the loth a more important outbreak is recorded of
a large body under James de Bedyngfield, a man, I take it,
of good social position and a younger son of Sir Peter de
Bedyngfield 1, who marched to the house of William Rous, of
Denington, chief constable of the hundred of Hoxne, and
compelled him under threats of instant decapitation to give
them ten archers belonging to the said hundred, de Bedyng
field undertaking to pay them at the rate of 6d. per day 2.
The next day they advanced to Gislingham, and there pil
laged the house and 'lifted' the cattle of Edmund de
Lakenheath, a man of large property.
This Edmund de Lakenheath, whose name appears as
one of the justices before whom the rioters were tried, was
pursued by the insurgents with relentless vigour; for we find
that on the feast of Corpus Christi his house at Gislingham
had been attacked, his court rolls burnt, and his goods taken;
as well as similar attacks made on his property at Herrings-
well, Lakenheath, and Stoke juxta Clare. So keen indeed was
the pursuit after him that, despairing of safety on land, he
was compelled to seek refuge on the high seas, but here also
misfortune pursued him, for his boat, we read, was very soon
captured and himself taken prisoner by the French admiral
who was cruising off the coast. From the French he ob
tained his liberty only on payment of a ransom of 500 marks,
which, together with the damage done to his property; made

r See pedigree of family, Add. MSS. 19117, Brit. Mus.
' See Appendix, p. 130.

22 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
de Lakenheath's losses amount in all to the sum of l,000t.
(Coram Rege Roll, 488, 35 *). It is, however, stated in the
indictments that James de Bedyngfield restored to de Laken
heath the property taken from him at Stoke.
On Saturday7, the 15th, it appears troubles began in the
Ipswich district, Thomas Sampson, of Harksted — also it
would seem a man of good social position2— who was the chief
leader in this j>art of the county, having chosen this day to
put forth his manifesto to the people of Ipswich and the
adjoining hundreds, commanding them on pain of death to
join his band on the Sunday morning following. His appeal
seems to have been responded to with alacrity, and Melton, a
village which appears on the map about twelve miles to the
north-east, being their destination, a large body of men
under Sampson forthwith set out thither. Arrived here they
attacked and plundered the house of William Fraunces8, a
man whom Richard Talmache de Bentley and his band had,
it appears, seized in Ipswich, where he was soon after be
headed, John Battisford, parson of Bucklesham, we are told,
taking a leading part at the execution.
What may have been the reason for especial antipathy in
this case I have not been able to discover.
The mob in these parts do not appear to have been as
scrupulous as to taking personal property as some of the
chroniclers note of the London mob. In the case of W.
Fraunces, the Coram Rege Roll (487, Rex 14) gives a list of
the spoils taken — to wit, gold and pieces of silver, spoons, cups
of wood (ciphi de macer), belts, rings, domestic utensils and
vessels of pewter, as well as beer, corn, and beasts. In the
town of Ipswich itself the houses of John Gerard, John Cobat,
John the rector of St Stephen's, and of the archdeacon of
Suffolk fell a prey7 to the mob. The second may be suffi
ciently explained, perhaps, by the fact that John Cobat 's name
appears as one of the poll-tax collectors. He sat in the Par-
1 The date given here for this attack on de Lakenheath is Coipus Christi day
5 Ric. II. [1382]. I think, however, from several considerations that this was a
slip on the part of the scribe, aud should have been written 4 Ric. II. [1381].
2 His property lay at Kersey, Harksted, and Preston and was of considerable
amount. See Appendix, p. 143.
3 See Appendix, p. 127.

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liament of 1377 for the town, and was no doubt a well-to-do
man, the goods taken from him being valued at 100?. The
office of archdeacon of Suffolk was at this time held by the
Cardinal of St Angelo at Rome, a fact which, together with
others of a like nature, had been prominently brought forward
by the Commons for complaint in the Good Parliament of
1376. So that it is possible that the attack in this instance
was intended by the mob to testify pointedly their dislike to
these infringements of the Statutes of Provisors.
At Culpho again, on the 16th, the house of Roger de
Wolfreston, fomierly escheator for the county, was despoiled of
goods, the cattle and horses to the value of 100 marks being
driven off. Sampson seems to have continued his depre
dations for some little time, outrages by the mob under him
being noted at Bramfield, Barking, and Needham, and as
they marched, as the roll has it, ' from village to village
throughout the hundreds of Bosmere and Claydon.' He
seems, however, to have managed to elude the grasp of the
law till July 23, when he was captured and shortly afterwards
condemned to death, but was pardoned finally by the king,
and his goods, which had been forfeited, were restored to
him1 On Monday, June 17, Bergholt appears as the scene of
violence. A band under Thomas Fletcher of that place
having forcibly compelled William Atte Heath, bailiff of the
manor, to give up to them all the court rolls and extents
of the manor in his possession, publicly burnt them in front
of the church, thereby, we are informed, disinheriting the
Lady Margaret de Sutton and John de Sutton, her husband2.
Proceeding hence to Stratford, a village close by, they
attacked Roger the parson there, threatening to take his life
unless he gave them gold. This apparently he was unable to
produce, and the mob eventually had to content themselves
with a meagre 26s. 8d. extracted by the fear of death from
i Sampson's name occurs on the list, preserved on {he Rolls of Parliament, of
those excluded from the general pardon. The Coram Rege Roll, however, states
that he was pardoned by the king at the prayer of his lady mother. (No. 487,
Rex 14 A.)
2 John de Sutton, M.P. for Suffolk in 1377.

24 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
his unfortunate chaplain, John Attebrook. At Mettingham,
however, on the following day, a band under Walter Coselere,
who, like many of the leaders who were unlucky enough to be
taken, eventually paid the penalty with his head, managed to
secure a very much larger booty. In this case the attack was
on Mettingham Castle, which seems to have belonged at thl-
time to John Plays and Roger de Boy7s, Chivalers, into which
the mob forced their way and succeeded in securing goods
and arms to the value of 1,000/., besides 40?. in money : nor
did they omit to carry away all court rolls, extents, and sur
veys upon which they could lay their hands. Under this
date we also find mention of sums of money7 collected for
the tax being taken from the house of William Marsh, of
Soterley, one of the collectors.
Again, on the 19th, a second attack was made on
Mettingham Castle by a large body of men under another
John Wrawe, described as parson of Ringsfield Church, no
doubt attracted thither by the large booty which had, been
taken thence on the previous day. This time, however, they
only managed to get 40?. in gold and silver and 20?. worth of
goods. Under this date also an attack on a manor belonging
to the Countess of Norfolk at Walton is related, and the
destruction of all the court rolls and manorial documents
there. In the eastern parts of the county we read of serious
riots on the 18th at Lowestoft, chiefly, as appears from
the indictments, under the guidance of one Richard Ressh,
a foreigner from Holland; while in the Beccles district
John Wrawe, of Ringsfield, leads an attack on the house
of Hugh Fastolf at Bradwell, from which some 400?.
worth of goods were carried off by the rioters. Also at
Beccles itself the murder of one Geoffrey Southgate is re
corded, who was dragged from his house by the rioters and
slain in the presence of John Wrawe, clerk, even though he
held the king's protection in his hands.
The latest date of acts of violence in Suffolk which I
have met with is June 28, on which day John Reynolds, of
Bawdsey, seized the court rolls of the manors of Hollesley
and Bawdsey on the east coast, and broke into the houses of

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George Glanvyle and Clement Brethenham there. John
Northern, also of Bawdsey, on the same day attacked the
manor house at Hollesley belonging to William of Ufford,
Earl of Suffolk, who was then at Bury trying rioters iii his
official capacity, and took and burnt all his court rolls.
The indictments which refer to West Suffolk having been
lost, it is impossible to say exactly how long the rioting went
on, but in all probability the worst of it was well over by
June 20, and on the 23rd Gosford tells us the Earl of
Suffolk arrived in Bury, having been dispatched thither by
the king, with a body of 500 lances to quell the revolt.
It would seem he found but little difficulty or oppo
sition in pacifying the district, for after the short space of
only four days we find him engaged in hearing the pleas
of the Crown at Mildenhall, and at other towns during the
following week. In the records of these proceedings the
frequent occurrence of the word ' decollatus ' shows the seve
rity with which punishment was meted out. The principal
leader, John Wrawe, chaplain of Sudbury, was tried in
London and condemned to be hung, drawn, and quartered.
He appears to have turned approver, but was not allowed on
that account to escape his doom (Coram Rege Roll, 484,
Rex 26).
In the eastern parts of the county lawlessness, it would
seem, perhaps prevailed rather longer than in the western,
but the arrival of the king in Essex with a large force, and
the severe measures taken, soon awed the insurgents into at
least comparative tranquillity1.
1 That the county remained for some time in a very unsettled state is likely
enough, and we find what seems rather a serious outbreak going on in the summer
of 1383 at Hollesley. On this occasion we are told Walter son of Walter Alanton
of Wrotham, William Skrevenor ' manens in llarlef ord ' and Roger Powel of Eyk
endeavoured to raise a "new insurrection," and collecting a body of some 100 or
so men attacked the house of George Glanvill of Hollesley and compelled him and
JIatilda his wife to pay a fine of 10?., besides looting their premises. The houses
of John the rector of Parham and several others were similarly treated during the
outbreak, which however only lasted for three days. (Gaol Delivery Roll,
164, m. 33.)

CHAPTER II.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISING IN NORFOLK.
The insurrection, though commencing slightly later in
Norfolk than it did in Suffolk, nevertheless appears to have
spread with similar fury7 and rapidity, and to have affected
every part of the county. According to the presentment of
the Metford Jury the principal leaders of the insurgents in
this county were Sir Roger Bacon Knight, Thomas, son of
Thomas de Gyssing Knight, John Chacchevache ', ' qui se
facit vocari ' John de Montenay de Bokenham, and Geoffrey-
Lister of Felmingham-.
Sir Roger Bacon, Knight and Chivaler, who took a very
leading part in the Norfolk rising, is described on the Coram
Rege Roll 3 as of Baconsthorpe ; and there seems to be good
reason to suppose that he was uncle to the James de
Bedyngfield, mentioned as one of the leaders in Suffolk4.
Thomas de Gyssing Knight, it may be noted, sat in the
Parliament of 1380 for the county of Norfolk, and his son's
sphere of activity seems to have been in the south-western
parts of the. county7.
The role played by John de Montenay does not seem to
have been one of great importance ; while that of Geoffrey-
Lister was perhaps the most active of any. The name of the
last-mentioned leader is still to be seen on the Poll Tax roll

i Cf . Blomefield's Norf. i. 382 and 3S5.
2 See Appendix, p. 132.
s Coram Rege Roll 483, Rex 19.
4 Cf. Davy's Suffolk Collections, ' Bedingfield ' Pedigree. Add. MSS. in Brit.
Mus.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISING IN NORFOLK. 27
for 1379 as a resident at Felmmgham, and he is there
described a> a 'lestere' or dyer1. He has however been
erroneously described by7 Walsingham as 'John Lister of
Norwich,' and by Froissart as ' William Lister of Stanford.'
Capgrave, however, though he calls him ' Jekk Lister "' has
given us his place of residence correctly as Felmingham.
A John Lister of Binham does indeed appear as taking a
minor part in the proceedings, and is mentioned as being in
company with Geoffrey Lister on June 21, which may pos
sibly account for Walsingham's confusion of the names. It
is noted on the Indictments 3 that Geoffrey7 Lister was slain
by the Bishop, which is the fate accorded to this leader both
by Capgrave and Walsingham.
From the information given us in the indictments, it
appears that the action which first brought the revolutionary7
leaders within reach of the law, was that of sending their
agents to ride systematically through the various hundreds
of the county-, in their final efforts to induce the people to
join the revolt. Some measure of this kind was no doubt
necessary, before the appeal to arms, in order to apprize the
supporters of the cause, of the date finally fixed for the
general uprising ; and had been doubtless anxiously awaited
throughout the county. The carrying out of the above
important task appears to have been intrusted chiefly to
John Gentilhomme and Richard Filmond, both of Buxton,
who are described in one of the indictments as "principal
instigators of revolt throughout the whole county," and as
being employed on June 14 in riding from village to village
throughout the county4, making proclamations in Lister's
name for all men to rise in arms. They also appear engaged
on the same work on June the 17th and even as late as the 21st.
It does not appear that any very7 serious outbreak took
place in this county before the 17th, which was the date of
the great meeting on Mushold Heath near Norwich.
On the 16th indeed we find mention of an isolated attack
i Norfolk Lay Subsidies, W59-. P.H.O.
3 The corruption of Jeff into Jekk is not difficult to understaud.
3 Ant. Indictments 128. Norf. Hundreds of Blofield, Walsham, Taverham.
1 Ant. Indict. 123. Norf. South Erpingham Hundred.

28 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
on a manor house of the Duke of Lancaster's at Methwold,
and the burning of his court rolls there, by a band of rioters
under William, son of William de Metfield, of Brandon Ferry.
We may note also the great hatred at once evinced against
the Tax Collectors in a message sent by John Coventry,
bowyer of Lynn, on June 16th to Nicholas de Massingham,
Justice of the Peace, and collector under the second com
mission, informing him, that unless 10?. were forwarded
forthwith to Lynn, he might shortly expect a visit from a
band of the insurgents.
On June 17, however, at Norwich, the insurgents
opened their campaign under Sir Roger Bacon and Geoffrey
Lister in grim earnest. In answer to the numerous pro
clamations which had been made throughout the various
hundreds of the county, and which appear to have been
generally put forth in Lister's name, a large concourse of
countrymen assembled on that day on Mushold Heath, close
by Norwich. The place of rendezvous was doubtless well
known, and was evidently largely attended from all quarters ;
many no doubt coming thither with the same object as that
attributed on the indictments to Symon Cook and Henry-
Sherman, of Walsingham parva, who, we are told, rode over
to the Mushold meeting on the 17th in order to try and
induce Lister, who occupied a leading position on the occa
sion1, to advance into their district with fire and sword.
Great alarm naturally spread at once through the city7 at the
increasing numbers and threatening attitude of so large a
muster in its immediate vicinity; and such measures as
were possible were forthwith taken for arming the citizens
1 The Jury of the Hundred of Fourhow say that the chief leaders of the rebel
party at the Mushold meeting on the 17th, were Roger Bacon Chivaler, Richard
Felmond of Buxtou, John Gentilome of Buxton, John Wattes, Geoffrey Lister,
Thomas Skeet, William Kybyte, John de Tranche, ami Thomas Sampson. (Ant.
Indictments, No. 123, Norfolk.) The last named must not be confused with the
Suffolk leader of the same name. The Sampson here named was beheaded • his
goods amounted to 201. William Kybyte is described on the Escheator's Roll as
"de Wirsted" and his goods are there given as worth 60s.; while Lister's goods
and chattels were only valued at 33s. 9i/., for which Henry Bettes of Felmingham
and Agnes, formerly the wife of Geoffrey Lister, had to answer. The record for
Skeet is illegible. (Escheator's Inquis. Norf. and Suff. 5-6 Ric. II., Series i
File 1168.) '

RISINfi IN NORFOLK. 29
and appointing guards to defend the gates should the bands
under Bacon and Lister advance to the attack \
The leader within the walls, to whom the defence of the
city had been intrusted, was a certain Sir Robert Salle, a
man of considerable note and great personal prowess, and who,
though not of gentle blood, had been knighted by Edward
III., and who appears also to have sat in the Parliament of
1378 for the county of Norfolk.
From the account given by Froissart -' we learn that the
insurgents first sent in an imperious demand that Sir Robert
Salle should come out and speak with them, threatening that
if he did not do so they would storm and burn the city.
In compliance with this Sir Robert rode out alone to
Mushold Heath to meet the insurgent leaders, who soon
made known to him the object of the interview, namely-, to
persuade him to turn traitor, throw in his lot with them, and
join their insuiTection as leader. This course he at once, and
scornfully, rejected : but on endeavouring to regain the
saddle, in or ;er to return to the city, he unluckily missed his
stirrup, owing to his horse becoming restive. At sight of
this mishap a dastardly cry was at once raised to fall upon
and slay7 him. On this Sir Robert at once let his horse go,
and, drawing the beautiful Bordeaux blade which he earned,
laid about him with terrible effect "que e'estoit grand"
beaute de le veoir." Though his great personal strength
enabled him to lay no less than twelve of his antagonists
low, the odds proved too great, and at length he fell, borne
down by the multitude of his assailants. The spot where he
died we leam from the indictments was close by the Hospital
of St Mary Magdalen, — a building which stood about one
mile to the north-east of the Magdalen gates of the city3, —
slain by the hands of Henry7 Roy7se of Dilham, Adam Martyn,
and many others 4.
Though one must admire the gallantly and bravery of
Sir Robert's conduct in thus venturing alone among the
i Cf. blomfield's Norf. in. 106.
" FroUsart's Chronicles, vol. n. chap. 77 (Ed. Lyons, 1559).
" Blcuiiield's Norf. iv. 440.
1 See Appendix, p. 132.

30 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
rebels, one can hardly commend it for wisdom, unless we
suppose that, distrusting the forces within the town, and
his means of defence, the course he pursued, though well
nigh desperate, appeared to him the only one which afforded
a chance of saving the city from attack and pillage.
It would seem that during the confusion and alarm
caused by the fall of their chief, or possibly owing to some
treachery, the citizens of Norwich suffered the insurgents to
effect an entrance into the city; for the Coram Rege Roll
(No. 483, Rex 19) tells us that on this day Sir Roger Bacon
at the head of the rebel bands had marched into the city
" with pennons flying and in warlike array."
In the scenes of rapine and bloodshed which ensued
Reginald de Eccles, Justiee of the Peace, was perhaps the
most distinguished victim, who, we are told, having been
seized in his lodgings at the manor of the Abbot of St
Benedict de Hulm in Heigham, by Thomas Aslak cord-
wainer of Norwich, and Adam Pulter of Heigham, and
others, was dragged to the pillory and there barbarously-
stabbed in the abdomen with a dagger, and finally beheaded.
His goods and chattels to the value of one hundred marks
were at once seized and confiscated by the rioters, of whom
one Thomas Atte Church of Felthorp is noted as having made
off with the Justice's furred gown. The house of Sir Robert
Salle was also wrecked and two hundred pounds worth of
goods earned off; while from that of Henry Lomyner, a
wealthy citizen and one who had represented the city in
Parliament in 1378, various goods and chattels ' to the value
of 1000 marks were taken away by the mob.
A similar fate befel the houses in the city belonging to
John de Freston, Archdeacon of Norwich ; and of Walter de
Bixton, one of the tax collectors for the city, who had also
been its representative in the first three Parliaments of this
reign. From the account given by Blomfield it appears that the
townspeople were compelled by the rioters to pay large sums
of money to save their city from further destruction, till, on
1 Among these were a "pokett of Wad" valued at 100s.. a furred gown worth
10s., and a barrel of " Astere " valued as 40s.

RISING IN NORFOLK. 31
the arrival of Sir Thomas Morieux, some force, it would seem,
was organised which could afford protection from the rioters.
According to the account of the rising given by Thomas
of Walsingham, Sir Robert Salle was one of five knights
who were captured by the insurgents and detained in their
service, but owing it would seem to his severe condemnation
of their measures did not long survive, " non diu perrnansit
inter eos," being slain by one of his own bondmen. The
other four knights, de Scales, William de Morlee, John de
Brewes, and Stephen Hales 1 found favour, we are told, with
Lister, who stvled himself King of the Commons, and served
him on bended knee.
As regards Sir Robert Salle, I am inclined to follow
Froissart's account ; and whatever of truth there may be in
the story as regards the others, there does not seem to be
any corroboration for it on the indictments. The name of
John de Brewes does indeed occur at Heydon, when all the
court rolls of his manor there were committed to the flames
by the rioters on the 21st ; so that service with the rebels does
not appear to have conferred immunity from their violence.
Nor was Norwich and its immediate neighbourhood the
only scene of violence on the 17th, for outbreaks are recorded
at Rougham and Wyghton, while in the south-western parts
of the county, — where William Geldore of Feltwell appears
as a leader of some importance, and one who assumed to
himself roy7al power, — we read of the destruction of the
house and property of John de Methwold2 at Langford, and
serious disturbances at Suthrey. Of Robert Tewe, another
ringleader in these parts, it is related, that he and his
companions fell upon and captured Robert de Gravele and
laid his head upon the block for execution, " super quendam
stipitem ad eurn decollandnm "; but more merciful counsels
prevailing, eventually allowed him to redeem his life by
paying 8 marks 16 pence and 28 cows (valued at 10 marks),
1 The name of Stephen Hales occurs as being one of the controllers of the Poll
Tax for the county of Norfolk. (L. T: R. orig. 4 Ric. II. m. 34.)
2 John Methw.Jd is described in the Registers of the Duke of Lancaster
(vol. xrv. fob 117. I in P.R.O.j as "Seneschall of onr Court at Castleacre in the
county of Norfolk.' in this year.

32 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
the latter being probably required for commissariat purposes.
On the next day, ISth of June, the rioters, under Adam
Smith and Henry Stanford, both of Wroxham, advanced on
Carrow Priory, close by Norwich, and by threats of violence
obtained various deeds and Court rolls from Margaret de
Euges the Prioress, which they afterwards burnt in Norwich,
in the presence of Lister and John de Trunch. On the same
day ', according to the presentments of the Jury7 at Yarmouth,
made on July 16, Sir Roger Bacon, Geoffrey Lister, William
Kybit, John Tronch, John Kik, and others advanced to that
town at the head of a large band of insurgents and there by
threats of violence compelled the burgesses to surrender to
them their Charter of Liberties2. Having got possession of
the document they cut it in two pieces, one of which was
forwarded to John Seynsbury, John Wrawe chaplain, Robt.
Garveys, Win. Coupere, Edmund Hemyng, William Lacy7
senior, and many7 others in the county of Suffolk, to show
that by their help, consent and advice these matters had been
taken in hand.
On the 19th the insurgents attacked and broke open the
gaol at Yarmouth and beheaded three wretched prisoners
for no other reason, it would seem, than that they happened
to be men of Flanders, while John Cook, a felon from
Coventry, they at once set at liberty.
The houses in Yarmouth belonging to Hugh Fastolf3
and William Elys, both of whose names appear as members
of Parliament for the borough in 1377, were plundered by
the mob. We also read that Edmund Hemyng collected the
royal customs at a place called ' Kyrkelerode,' at the port of

1 It is stated in Clanship's History, apparently on the authority of some
chronological table then in Yarmouth Guildhall, that the " sagittarii " under Lister
entered the town on the morrow of St Botolph [IS June] , but were repulsed by
the townsfolk on the following day with considerable loss.
¦' Charters uuiting Kyrkley Road to Yarmouth were granted and repealed
many times in this and the preceding reign, and public feeling ran very high on
the aubjeot between Yarmouth and Lowestoft. The union enabled the burgesses
of Yarmouth to levy tolls at Kyrkley Road and was injurious to Lowestoft
interests. See Manship's Hist, of Yarmouth (C. J. Palmer, 1854), vol. i. 335-337.
Probably the charter destroyed by the insurgents was one of the*e.
5 The name of Hugh Fastolf appears as M.P. for Yarmouth in 1376-77 ; also as
a collector for Norfolk under second commission.

RISING IN NORFOLK. 33
Yarmouth, for the benefit of the .insurgents, "juxta pro-
clamationem factam per dictum Rogerum Bakon et socios
suos predic-tos."
From the presentments of the juries of the Hundreds of
East and West Flegg, it appears, that Bacon moved north
wards on the 19th, and after plundering the house of John
Fastolf at Caistor, where we are told that even the lead from
the chapel and from the house (de gurgite messuagii) was
carried off by the rioters, advanced to Winterton, where in
company- with John Copping of Norwich, he was present at
a similar attack on the house of John Curteyrs, who was
forced to pay a fine of 10 marks to escape instant execution.
It also appears from the Tunsted presentments that
Bacon assisted on June 20 at the burning of the Court
rolls belonging to the Abbey of St Benedict de Hulm in
company with Hervey Copping, Thomas Lomb of Netes-
hird and others; but after this date his name does not
appear, and we hear no more of him till his trial, and im
prisonment in the Tower.
It seems that on one occasion, at least, Bacon made use of
his position as leader to further his own private ends, for we
learn that he seized William Clere in Yarmouth, and carried
him off to Sondes Castle, where he forcibly obtained from him
an acquittance of the manor of Antingham, which he there
upon entered and held for three days '.
During the week following the 17th, the insurgents seem
to have done what they pleased, violence and plundering
being recorded in almost every district: nor do the indict
ments lead us to suppose that any resistance was offered by
those responsible for law and order. Once indeed we hear of
a Norfolk man, who being taken to Littleport for execution,
was there rescued by the Prior and good men of Ely: and
on another occasion, when John Atte Hyll, Chief Constable
of the hundred of Hensted, endeavoured, at the risk of his
life, to arrest John Qwyntenoye of Haynford and some other
rioters. But such instances serve rather to emphasize the
hopeless inability of the authorities to deal with the situation.
1 Bacon had previously sold the manor to William de Wechingham, "per
cartam et lieenciam regis."
p. 3

34 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
The Church, as represented by the larger ecclesiastical
establishments, was regarded with very marked ill feeling and
antipathy by the common people; and we find here, as
elsewhere, that their strongholds were constantly assailed,
and their property destroyed during the revolt. Thus we
find the manors belonging to the wealthy Abbey of St
Edmundsbury were attacked and plundered at Suthrey on
the 17th, and at Aylsham on the 22nd. The Priory at
Bromholm as well as those at Binham and Carrow were
forced to give up their Court rolls and muniments to be
publicly burned by the rioters ; and the Abbey at West
Dereham was attacked and plundered on the 20th by John
Marshall, and John Pykerel of Mildenhall with other rioters.
Perhaps however the most remarkable onslaught on a
religious house recorded in this county, was that made on
the Eve of the Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist
(Sunday, 23 June), on the Abbey of St Benedict de Hulm.
Here the insurgents had mustered in force to the number of
some 400 armed men ; and led on by William de Kymberly,
the Abbot's carter, they advanced to the head of the Abbey-
causeway at dead of night, and endeavoured to storm the
building. The Abbot and convent, roughly disturbed at
prayer, flew to arms to defend their walls, or as the record
runs "ad matutinas1 tunc existentes servicium divinum metu
mortis dimiserunt et ipsos armaverunt," and after fighting
for their lives throughout the night, managed, it seems, to
successfully resist the attack. It would appear also, from
the wording of the indictment, that this attack was aimed
to some extent at the Bishop of the diocese 2, whom they
probably hoped to catch and slay in the Abbey.
It is curious to note that in these parts we also come
across the name of a Walter Tyler, an active leader on the
popular side. He is described as " manens in Ketleston,"
1 Matins began at midnight and lasted till 3 a.m.
2 The indictment contains the following : — ' per totam noctem Ulam obsederunt
dominum Abbatem et omnes servientes suos ac etiam doniinnm Episcopum Norvi-
censem si in partes illas venisset ad ipsos interficiendos.' (Ant. Lidict. No. 128
Norf. Tunsted.) From this I infer that the Bishop had returned to his diocese to
quell the revolt before the 23rd of June, and was probably expected to be lodging
at the Abbey on the night of the attack.

RISING IN NORFOLK. 35
from which we may perhaps infer that he was not a resident
in the district.
The Jury however reported, that he was the first to
instigate the rising in the neighbourhood of Walsingham,
announcing that John Holkam, 'Justice of our Lord the
King,' would be at the house of William the parson of
Thursford, and urging that he should at once be seized and
slain, a plan which Tyler at the head of a band of rioters,
afterwards endeavoured to carry into execution.
The above mentioned John Holkam, and Edmund Gumey
of West Lexham, Justice of the Peace, seem to have been
particularly obnoxious to the rioters. On the 15th a pro
clamation had been issued putting a reward of 20s. on their
heads, and so keenly were they pursued by Thomas Kenman
and others, that on the 18th they fled to sea in a boat, and
were pursued by water as far as the port of Burnham \ It
does not appear that either of them was caught, and though
the mob broke into and plundered Gurney's house on the
20th, yet he himself managed to escape in safety ; for on the
10th Dec. following we find him, in conjunction with Sir
Adam Pope, appointed deputy to enquire into the damage
done to the Duke of Lancaster's estates in the county during
the rising2. Gurney was Steward3 for the Duchy of Lan
caster property in this county and in Suffolk, which fact
may perhaps explain the animus shown against him.
From the presentments of the Jury of Holt it appears
that Geoffrey Lister was at Thorpe Market on the 21st, and
engaged, among other things, in holding some kind of
session, at which men brought their complaints before him,
and preferred bills against various people, in order, according
to the Jury7 presentments, that vengeance might be taken on
them. Here he was joined by John Lister of Binham, and
both it seems were present at the burning of the Court rolls
of Binham Piiory on the same day.
At Lynn we find several tradesmen of the town men
tioned as being on the side of the rioters ; thus in the list of
1 See Appendix, p. 135.
2 Registers of John Duke of Lancaster, in P.R.O., vol. xiv. fol. 120 d.
3 Ibid. vol. xm. fol. 159.
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36 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
ringleaders, among whom John Spanye, soutere and cord-
wainer " in le gres market," was the chief, we find the names
of " Thos Colyn tayllor, Thomas filius Thome Paynot, John
Whetewong webster, Henry Cornish glover, Walter Prat
glover,  Pinchebek tayllor,  Sadelere manens in le
Cokrowe juxta Bokenhams Place, John Bokelerplayrer " and
others taking active part in the insurrection.'
A body of rioters under John Spanye seem to have
marched from place to place throughout the neighbourhood,
collecting money by threats of violence and killing any
unhappy Flemings they met with. Thus we find them
levying blackmail of Symon de Snyterton on the 19th, and at
Berewydce on the same day turning Nicholas Mawpas out of
his free tenement and installing one John Coventry a bow-
y7er of Lynn in his place, and on the 22nd surprising Edmund
de Reynham1 in a wood at Rising and fining him 14 quarters
of oats as ransom. From an inquisition at East Rudham
taken on 15th July it appears that Robt Fleccher of Hun
stanton advanced with a company armed with bows and
arrows and other weapons to Hecham to make men rise
against the peace, "cursing" we are told "our reverend Father
Henry Lord Bishop of Norwich" for riding through the county
to chastise the rebels on July the 8th 2.
It is interesting to note the influence and power exerted
by John Wrawe in Norfolk, for besides the remarkable
occurrence mentioned as taking place at Yarmouth, Ave have
two other instances of his authority given on the indictments,
which tend to show that it was recognised throughout the
county7. The first is recorded by the Jury at East Dereham,
who relate that certain letters had been sent from Sudbury
in Suffolk, on behalf of John Wrawe, to Rodoland Lucas,
and others at East Dereham, containing orders as to the
disposal of a certain free tenement there3. The second is
contained in a statement made by the Jury of the Hundred
of South Grenhow to the effect that on the 20th of June John
Ikesworth and other rioters had attacked and broken into
1 A "controller" for the Poll Tax collection.
2 See Appendix, p. 135.
8 See Appendix, p. 133.

RISING IN NORFOLK. 37
the Rectory at Wickmere, " by the command and warrant of
John Wrawe," and had by the same authority taken posses
sion of the goods of Thomas de Hengham, the Rector there,
to the value o: 10?. The desire to destroy Court rolls and
kindred documents is here as elsewhere a very marked
characteristic of the revolt. A determined expedition with
this object occurred on the 19th of June under John Taylor
of North Woodbarningham. The rioters having arrested
John de Bessingham and Thomas Colman at Overstrand com
pelled them by force of arms to accompany them as they
marched to Hanworth, Felbrigg, Barningham, Bessingham,
and other places in the district, destroying all the rolls they
could lay their hands on. On the same day also John
Madour of Southrepps, described as a helper and counsellor
of Geoffrey Lister, broke into and plundered a manor
belonging to the Duke of Lancaster.
The reign of violence and lawlessness does not appear to
have continued for more than a week or so after the Mushold
meeting at Norwich on the 17th, though order does not seem
to have been altogether restored in the Eastern parts of
the county as late as the 28th of June.
The indictments give us no clue to the circumstances,
date or place of the final suppression of the revolt, though
they mention incidentally, as shown above, that probably the
Bishop had arrived in the county before June 23, and show that
as late as the 8th of July he was still prosecuting vigorously7
his work of restoring order and punishing the offenders. We
know however that Geoffrey Lister was alive and at Thorpe
Market on the 21st, so it seems probable that the affair at
North Walsham may have taken place on the 22nd or 23rd
of June. The historian John Capgrave has given us a graphic
account of the final collapse of the insurgents at Walsham,
and his account, since it explains the silence of the indict
ments by shewing that the rebels offered no resistance to the
Bishop on that occasion, would seem most probably to be the
true one1. Capgrave was indeed a Norfolk man himself
1 Capgrave's account differs considerably from that given by Thomas of
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38 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
—having been born at Lynn in 1393 — and was educated at
Cambridge, so that he undoubtedly must have had good
opportunities of ascertaining the truth.
His account of the suppression of the revolt in Norfolk is
as follows1- " Afterward* when [the Bishop] came to Icklingham, at
a spot where a mill somewhat narrowed the roadway, between
Cambridge and Thetford2, he met lord Thomas de Morley
and another a knight named Brewes. And here they
delivered up to him the three aforesaid malefactors, Sceth,
Trunch and Cubith. For they themselves did not dare to
put them to death without special command from the
king. But this most excellent man, having the zeal of
Phineas in his breast and taking into consideration the peril
of the people, led them with him to Wymondham, where,
after they had been confessed, he caused them to be be
headed. In the same place many malefactors remained,
who, terrified by dread of death, did not dare to proceed
further in their insurrection.
"The good pastor coming to the principal city of his
diocese, namely7 to Norwich, saw and bewailed the destruction
of houses and places made by the aforesaid furious people
while they were thus excited. For in his absence, one of
their principal leaders, Jekke Litster, and a. large multitude
associated with him, entered the city against the will of the
citizens and committed many horrid deeds, especially in the
destruction of houses and places in which certain nobles lived
who were friends of the law or of the king... .
"But this Henry, a good bishop and pastor, who seeing the
wolf, fled not, but exposed himself to danger, enquired of
the citizens where the head of all the evil and of all this
infamy might be found. And they said that he was
which an attack on the entrenched position of the rebels, led by the warlike
bishop in person, who displayed great prowess on the occasion, was completely
successful and was followed by great slaughter of the rebels, as well as the capture
and execution of their leader.
1 Jo. Capgrave's Liber de Illustribus Henricis, Pt. m. cap. 9. Translation by
F. C. Hingeston, 1853.
2 This spot (according to Blomfield's Norf. in. 109) is known as Temple bridge
in Icklingham, where the old road from Cambridge to Thetford crossed the Lark.
The present road crosses at the mill at Barton Mills.

KWAU ijs i>uiir<jijiv. 39
wandering about the neighbourhood of Walsham Market and
Gimingham, where he had the largest number of rustics
and ribald fellows. Thereupon the bishop commanded his
domestics to transfer themselves to those parts, and with
them he hims..-If was always foremost. For the bishop had
said to tho-e who were with him ' It is better that one evil
and wicked man should die, than that the whole people
perish, for they taking license from him, commit assaults and
robberies, killing those who are unconscious of crime.'
" And saying this he came to the town called Felmingham
where the said ringleader had a mansion. And those who
resided there, being questioned where he was, said that on
the previous day he was at Thorpe Market, where he had
caused it to be publicly proclaimed that all w7ho desired the
welfare of the kingdom and of the community should follow
him to Walsham : where he intended, as he said, to defend
the people against the tyranny of the approaching bishop by
military force. And on this all the able-bodied of the
adjacent villages had followed him, and were there... .And
thus -hastening on to Walsham he [the bishop] found the
openings of the roads blocked with timbers and towers, and
other impediments. But by good management of the bishop
and of other men who had assembled there, the whole people
surrendered, rejoicing that they might withdraw in peace.
Jekke Litster himself, leaping over a wall, hid himself in a
cornfield. And one of the people perceiving this, announced
it to the bishop. The traitor was sought and found ; he
was captured and beheaded ; and, divided into four parts, he
was sent through the country to Norwich, Yarmouth, and
Lynn; and to the site of his mansion; that rebels and
insurgents against the peace might leam by what end they
will finish their career."
Sir Roger Bacon, the principal leader, was taken, I think
probably before the affair at Walsham, though as to when
and where, information is not given. He was tried and
condemned, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
His misdoings arc recounted at length on the Coram Rege
Roll (483, Rex 19), where it is stated that he was finally-
pardoned by the king at the prayer of his future queen.

40 AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISING IN NORFOLK.
Thomas de Gyssing seems also to have been imprisoned
in the Tower for his action during the rising, for on the
Claus. Roll is an order to the Constable of the Tower to set
free Thomas son of Thomas de Gyssing chivaler, who had
been there confined. This order is dated 20th of Nov. 1381
and is made by the advice of the council and consent of the
king1. No clue is given us as to the fate of John de Monteney,
while the ominous word " decollatus," which appears on the
indictments over the names of several of the lesser leaders,
would seem to show that, at least in the oj)inion of the judges
of assize, considerable severity was deemed necessary to firmly
reestablish the reign of law.
i Rot. Clans. 5 Ric. II. m. 27.

CHAPTER III.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISING IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
My chief authority in compiling the following account of
the proceedings of the rioters in Cambridgeshire in June
1381, is the Assize Roll No. 103 in the series of those docu
ments now preserved in the Record Office in Fetter Lane.
This roll is composed of twelve skins, and contains the
records of the trials of the insurgents which came on before
the Assizes held at Cambridge, Ely, and various other places
in the county, during the month of July following.
It appears that tactics similar to those employed in
Norfolk and Suffolk were also made use of in this county in
order to induce the people to rise ; and we find again here
revolutionary agents at work in the county before the
general rising in arms. This point is brought out at the
trial of Thomas Wroo of Wooditton, — a name, by the way,
which also occurs in the Suffolk indictments, in connection
with the rising in that county, — who we are told was
actively engaged in what we may call "agitation" for a
period of six day's both before and after the feast of Corpus
Christi, threatening men with fire and the sword unless they
joined the revolt, and instructing them that it was the
command and wish of the king that they should do so. In
Cambridgeshire we see again the hand of John Wrawe at
work, and can trace his emissaries in the county; and
though it may be doubted if the organisation of the rebels
was so complete here as in more Easterly districts, yet his
influence was no doubt strongly felt.
Nor does it appear that the movement in this county
gained to so great an extent the active support of the better

42 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
class among the inhabitants; for the names of the leaders
here do not seem to indicate quite the position and
influence which attaches to many of those in Norfolk and
Suffolk. In the trials relating to the rioters in this county, one
point, it will be seen, is especially noticeable, and that is
the frequency with which it is affirmed by the rebel leaders
that their action was taken at the express command of the
king. Indeed the Mayor of Cambridge, when brought up
for trial, appears to urge the widespread understanding that
the king supported the movement, as a plea in extenuation
of the part he had taken in the riots. We also find among
the Cambridgeshire trials two cases which point clearly to
the fact that a close intercourse existed between the rioters
in this county and the revolutionary party in London.
The first of these is a case which came on before the
assizes at Bottisham on July 1st. The Jury of the hundred
of Stane here state that a certain rebel leader of the name
of John Greyston of Bottisham, having left Cambridgeshire
before the disturbances there began, had gone off to the
insurgent bands in London and Kent and stay7ed in those
parts during the murders of the Archbishop of Canterbury
and of Robert de Hales. Returning to Bottisham he then
became an active instigator of sedition in the neighbourhood,
and is stated to have gone through the villages of Bur well,
Swaffham, and Wilbraham, and exhibiting a certain pro
tection for his goods granted him previously by the Court of
Chancery, declared that he had full authority from the king
(plenani potestatem regiam) to raise men and destroy traitors
and others whom he would name ; and further to have
commanded all men to join him under pain of death. By7
an assiduous use of these means, and with the active help of
one Robert of Corby near Rockingham, he appears to have
collected a considerable body of men with whose aid, among
other things, he attacked a house at Bottisham and obtained
money by threats of violence from various people. Greyston
however does not appear to have been a person of much
position, for on his execution his worldly goods seem to have
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land in Bottisham worth 5s. per annum, which were then
forfeited to the king.
The second case occurs at the trial of a leader of the
name of John Stannford, who similarly went about the
county giving out that he had authority from the king, " in
quadam pixide," to destroy traitors1. This John Stannford2,
though, it appears, a Cambridgeshire man, is described as
a saddler from London, and according to the Jury of the
hundreds of Stane, Wycherly, and Armingford, was a leader
of some importance in this county, and had been concerned
in an attack on the house of William North at Abington on
15th of June.
Though June the 9th is the earliest date given
in the Assize roll as an occasion of open violence, y7et the
outbreak in this case, which took place at the house of
Roger Harleston at Cottenham, appears to have been rather
of an isolated nature. The rising in its more organised and
general form does not appear to have been seriously begun
in this county till after the feast of Corpus Christi on
June 13th. On the 15th of June indeed rioting and violence
appear to have been raging without any check in almost
every part of the county; thus at Reach, a village some 10
miles North-East of Cambridge, a band under John Saffrey
of Stow juxta Anglesey and Peter le Eyr of Thurlow parva
assaulted on this day a house belonging to Thomas de
Swaffham and carried off thence goods and chattels to the
value of £40. In addition to the spoil taken here, Saffrey,
it is added, returned with his cart laden with lead, chairs,
and other articles, chiefly of household furniture, which he
had stolen from one Thomas Torel, a Poll Tax collector3;
and as one among many of a similar nature this incident
may serve to show how prominently freebooting in their
nature were many of these expeditions.
i See also Coram Rege Roll 485, Rex 27.
2 John Stf.imf'ird's property consisted of two messuages, a garden and 40 acres
worth 24*. per annum in Barentoft: Exch. L. T. R., Enrolled Accts. (Escheators),
No. 8, in. 26 d. The name of John Stannford Sadler and Nicholaa his wife,
occur in the Camb. Fines in connection with an estate at Barenton. Pedes Finium,
Camb. Arch. Soc. 132. 37.
8-L. T. R., Enrolled Acct. (Subsidies), No. 13.

44 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
On the same day again the house and goods of Henry
English, the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, at Ditton Valence
fell a prey to the rioters, while at Chippenham a band under
Robert Tavell and William Cobbe of Gazeley1 attacked the
Priory of ' Saint John of Jerusalem in England,' seizing the
goods there and driving off the cattle ; not to mention such
smaller felonies en route as taking £4 from Richard Mac-
worth of Soham, and similar sums from Augustin Kellyng
and Gilbert Helgey at Isleham. At the same time also the
south-western parts of the county were ablaze with riot and
rapine, and perhaps most conspicuously so at the villages of
Steeple Morden and Gilden Morden, where lay the Manors of
Thomas Haselden, a person against whom the rioters appear
to have entertained a bitter hatred.
A search through the registers of John Duke of Lancaster
for this period2 discloses the fact that Thomas Haselden
was an important retainer of the Duke's, being also controller
of his household, steward of his Manor of Bassingbourn, and
lessee of that of Babraham, which facts give us perhaps the
clue to the reason for the animus displayed against him.
He was also a Justice of the Peace for the county.
The principal leader in this attack appears to have
been John Hanchach of Shudy Camps, a landowner of some
considerable position and probably the chief organiser of the
revolt in this county 3 (cf. Appendix, p. 137).
The local bands of rioters on this occasion appear to have
been reinforced by a body of 160 horse who rode over from
Cambridge under John Gibonn junior and some of the
Bailiffs of the town to take part in the attack. Geoffrey
Cobbe i, a man of considerable estate in Cambridgeshire, also
1 These men also appeal- as leaders in the Suffolk riots.
2 Reg. of Jo. Duke of Lane, in P.R.O. Vol. xm. ff. 81, 153, 150 d.
3 Hanchach owned ith of the manor of Linton and other manors, as well as
land at Babraham, Abynton parva, Cambridge, Hadenham and elsewhere. Exch.
L. T. R., Enrolled Accts. (Escheators), No. 8, m. 27. He was executed at the
assizes. His widow Ann petitioned the king for dower for herself and her four
children out of her late husband's lauds. Ant. Petitions, 5754.
i He owned land at Wimpole, Orwell, Croydon, Papwortb, and elsewhere,
worth 22/. per annum. He was pardoned under the general pardon. Exch.
L. T. R., Enrolled Accts. (Escheators), No. 8, m. 26 d. See also Rot. Claus. 5 Ric.
II. m. 33-34.

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arrived on the scene with a band of his retainers, of whom it
is noted on the Assize Roll that they publicly proclaimed
that they- were acting with a commission from the king
(cf. Appendix, p. 137).
The whole band then advanced on Haselden's devoted
manors, where they wrecked and totally destroyed the manor-
houses and seized on all the moveable property they found,
which in order to transform into a more portable form they
appear to have sold on the premises: the damage done being
reckoned at one thousand pounds sterling. Haselden him
self with his retainers was probably with the duke in the
North at the time of the attack or no doubt some resistance
would have been made.
The Hospital at Shengay, a village some three miles to the
North, was also attacked and destroyed by the same band ;
and on the same day Hanchach is reported to have sacked the
Priory of St John of Jerusalem at ' Dokeswurth ' (Duxford ?).
On Sunday 16th we still find John Saffrey continuing his
depreciations, this time at Great and Little Wilbraham,
where he destroy-ed the houses of William Malt and John
Rogers, in the former case, we are told, even selling the
timber of the house. Nor was any- respect shown here for
the King's Bailiff, William Margret, from whom, under
threats of instant death, Saffrey extracted a fine of 26s.
Again at Little Swaffham we find him forcibly ejecting
Simon Andrew the lessee (firmarius) of Thomas de Swaffham
from his house there and putting in his place Margaret the
widow of John Andrew ; though as to any reason for this
transaction the assize roll is silent. John Saffrey himself, at
the time of the assizes, had eluded the grasp of the law, and
he eventually escaped punishment under the general pardon1.
Thomas de Swaffham 's house at Burwell was also plun
dered on Sunday by John Kempe of Dullingham, who, we are
told, rode thither with banner displayed; whilst at Harleston
and Arnington the houses of William Bateman and Geoffrey
1 John Saffrey's estate consisted of land at Stow, Quy, and Wimpole, worth 5s.
per annum, and goods worth £20. 2s. 6cl. which were escheated but restored to
him on his receiving the king's pardon. Exch. L. T. R., Enrolled Acct.
(Escheators), No. 3, m. 26 d.

46 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
Michel were burnt and plundered in like manner. During
the riots at Sutton also we learn that the constable of the
village, Richard Waltesheff, was compelled by Thomas Ban-
and others to join them in a pursuit through the country after
John Fedeler and John Whyte, two men of Ely, whom they
sought to slay.
On June 17th the Court Rolls and documents belonging
to Thomas Bishop of Ely at Balsham were seized and burnt
by a body of rioters under Thomas Ixning and Thomas
Lyncoln of Littleport. In like manner on the previous day
those of the Prioress of Iklington had been committed to the
flames by James Hog of that place; while on the 15th those
belonging to the Prior of Ely at West Wratting had been
destroyed in the same way by Robert Randesson and others :
and in this county as elsewhere the destruction of these and
similar documents appears to have been a leading feature in
the plans of the rioters.
On the 18th an expedition from Ely appears to have
carried fire and sword in a north-westerly direction, pene
trating into Huntingdonshire as far as Ramsey, under Robert
Plumer, John son of Nicholas Gunneld, — both of Ely,— and
Robert Tavell ; the last mentioned being identical with the
Robert Tavell of Lavenham, who had taken so prominent a
part in the disturbances at Bury St Edmunds on June 14th.
Tavell had been admitted into the Ely district over the
bridge and causeway at Stuntney, a position which had been
seized and occupied by the rebels in force, as appears from
the trial of William Combe1, the rebel leader at that point,
who while allowing ingress to Tavell and his band from
Suffolk had prevented any men belonging to the king or
bishop from passing, and was therefore condemned at the
Assizes to be hung.
The above-mentioned expedition to Ramsey on the 18th
was, I think, the last of the adventures of Robert Tavell,
for on turning to the2 Escheators roll we find not only that
Tavell himself was beheaded at Ramsey, and his horse valued
at 30s. escheated to the crown; but that 17 horses, 19 saddles
1 Assize Roll 103, m. 10 d.
2 L. T. R., Enrolled Accts. (Escheators), No. 8, m. 26 d.

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and bridles, 6 swords, and variou< other properties, lately
belonging to Robert Tavell, William Cobbe and many other
insurgents, were then in hands of the Abbot of Ramsey, who
had to account for them to the kino-1 This circumstance
O
seems to suggest that the abbot had tinned his retainers out
in force and given the rioters a very different reception to
that which they generally met with.
On the 19th an attempt was made by a body of men
chiefly, it would seem, belonging- to Sutton, to seize the
Sacrist of Ely at his manor-house at Wentworth. The
attempt however does not appeal- to have been successful,
for the Assize Roll does not mention any violence done to
the sacrist, who had probably sought safety in precipitate
flight. While the country districts lay thus at the mercy7 of the
insurgents, who appear to have earned all before them in
their career of violence and plunder, the towns of Ely and
Cambridge, to which we will now turn to trace the course of
events, were faring even worse.
At Ely7 the outbreak appears to have begun on June 15th
under the leadership of Richard de Leycester of Ely, who on
that day went through the town proclaiming that all men
should rise and join his band, that they might, on behalf of
the king (ex parte Regis) and his faithful commons, destroy
certain traitors who would be named.
On the day following, being Sunday, Leycester and his
band, having forcibly compelled John Shethe, glover, and
Thomas Litster, both of Ely, and several others to accompany
and support him, marched to the Monasteiy, where, apparently
without any opposition, he boldly mounted up into the pulpit
and thence publicly declared on behalf of the king what
measures were to be taken against the said traitors2.
On the Monday morning, the populace being now, it
would seem, worked up to the pitch of excitement needful for
extremes of violence, proceeded under Leycester 's guidance to
the Bishop of Ely's gaol, into which they7 forced an entrance
and forthwith set free all the prisoners therein confined.
r L. T. R., Enrolled Accounts (Escheators), No. 8, m. 26 d.
2 Assize Roll 103, m. 10.

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Aided by the additions thus made to their members, the
mob proceeded to wreak their fury on Edmund de Wal
singham, a Justice of the Peace for the county. The rioters
having once got possession of his person the fate of the
unfortunate Justice was not long doubtful. Sentence of
death, we are told, was at once passed on him and the wretched
man was forthwith dragged off to the block by the infuriated
mob; whence after a bloody execution his head was taken
away and placed over the town pillory '. We note also that
Edmund de Walsingham's house at Eversden had been
attacked and plundered by a band of rioters under John
Peper of Linton on the preceding day7.
Both Richard de Leycester, and his coadjutor John Buk
of Ely, were eventually arrested ; of the latter it is stated
that in addition to his other crimes and misdemeanours, he had
basely7 set upon Edmund de Walsingham, as he was hurrying
him off to execution, and had stolen his purse containing
42-|c?. Of this sum, it is noted, Buk appropriated to himself
30^c?., having paid out of it 12rf. "pro labore suo" to John
Deye of Willingham2, a miscreant whom he had employed as
executioner. Both leaders3 suffered the extreme penalty of the law,
being condemned to be drawn and quartered, and their pro
perty was duly escheated to the crown. Buk seems to have
repented of his crimes for at his trial being asked who
commanded him to take Walsingham's purse answered that
he believed he then acted " ex precepto diaboli."
At Ely7 we come across some evidence as to the position
and influence of John Wrawe in Cambridgeshire. A certain
chaplain named John Michel had, it appears, been arrested
for the part he had taken in the disturbances here, and was
1 Capgrave in his Chronicle says " at Hely they killed a man of Cort thei cleped
Edmund Galon for her entent was to kille all the men that lemed ony lawe."
2 Deye had also taken part in the riots at Cambridge on Saturday. He owned
a messuage and 1 rood of land in Willingham and goods valued at £6. 17s. 2rf.
Exch. L. T. R., Enrolled Accts. (Escheators), No. 8, in. 26 d.
3 Leycester's property consisted of a tenement with dovecot and two shops in
Bochersrowe Ely, and goods valued at 40 marks. That of Buk, of a messuage at
Castlepath, 4 shops and other property in Walpolelane, worth £17. lis. 6(7.,
2 silver spoons and £4 in money. Exch. L. T. R., Enrolled Accts. (Escheators),
No. 8, m. 26 d.

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eventually brought up for trial. In the record of the case it
is stated that Michel went off from Ely to join Wrawe's band
in Suffolk, "exivit de insula Eliensi usque in comitivam
Johannis Wrawe capellani capitalis ductoris," and became a
"subductor"; but returned to Ely, doubtless as an emissary
of Wrawe's, in time to take part in the rioting in this
district, where he appears to have assumed the part of a
leader of more or less importance, and to have issued
revolutionary proclamations in the town.
There can also be little doubt that Tavell, who was acting
with Wrawe at Bury7, was despatched hither by that leader's
orders to take part in the Cambridgeshire insurrection.
We may further note here evidence of the strong feeling
which pervaded the people against the performance of cus
tomary services and of the determined struggle which was
intended against them, which is brought out at the trial of
Adam Clymme, who was for his various misdemeanors con
demned at the assize at Ely to be hung1. Clymme, it appears,
had ridden up and down the county aimed, during the time
of the riots, urging the people to join the movement, and
commanding all men, whether bond or free as they valued
their heads, to cease the performance of any service or custom
that might be due to their lords ; except as he might inform
them on behalf of the great society (aliter quam eis informaret
ex parte macpie societatis).
Besides this Clymme had also been a leading spirit in
destroying the Rolls of the Green Wax and many other
valuable documents belonging both to the King and Bishop ;
and had also openly proclaimed to the people that they
should at once behead all men connected with the law.
During the three days from June 15th to 17th the town of
Cambridge seems to have been completely at the mercy of
the rioters, who did as they pleased without any resistance
from constituted authorities.
The first disturbance here noted on the Assize Roll occurred
on the 15th (Saturday). The scene in this case was Bridge
i Adam Clymme's goods escheated to the Crown were valued at £10. 19s. 5(1.
Exch L. T. E., Enrolled Accts. (Escheators), No. 8. in. 26, d.
p. 4

50 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
Street, down which rushed an infuriated mob seeking with
murderous intent the person of one Roger son of Richard
Blankgren, who abode there. His house was forthwith
searched and ransacked, but the owner, luckily for him, was
not to be found, having taken timely flight to the Church of
St Giles hard by, whither the mob exasperated at the escape
of their victim at once followed. Here, it seems, they met
with some kind of resistance, for we are told that the rioters,
who were bent on beheading Blankgren there and then, were
prevented from carrying out their bloodthirsty intention by
the action of the parishioners there ; who we may suppose had
hurriedly assembled to offer what protection they could to
the life of their fellow citizen. Savage at being thus baulked
of their prey the mob returned to Blankgren's house, and by
dastardly threats of violence obtained money from his un
fortunate wife who, it is related, threw herself on her knees
before the leaders and besought to be allowed to purchase
peace for herself and husband.
It must be borne in mind that at this time a very bitter
feud existed between the University and town of Cambridge,
which only in the April preceding had resulted in open
violence. The townsmen had on that occasion broken into
the University treasury and abstracted many valuable charters
and muniments which they committed to the flames ; and had
then compelled the University officials to execute two deeds
relinquishing all right of action, and binding themselves to
pay a large sum to the town1.
Thus it will be seen that when the insurrection broke out
in June relations between the town and University were, to
say the least of it, exceedingly strained.
It appears that on the evening of Saturday June 15th the
townsmen, in answer to a solemn proclamation, assembled in
great force at the sound of the St Mary's bells in front of the
Guildhall. Hero they elected two brothers, James and
Thomas de Grantchester, as leaders2, who in company with

1 Rot. Pari. m. 106 et seq.
2 These names though given on Rolls of Parliament, do not seem to occur on
the Assize Roll,

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Simon Hosier', John Russel, Thomas Forbishour-, John
Hanchach and others, advanced at the head of the rioters, at
about ten o'clock at night, to a savage onslaught on the house
of William Bedel.
The house was destroyed and its contents carried off, but
their intended victim having escaped them, the leaders issued
a command that anyone who met him should forthwith slay
him. This man, who is called William Bedel both on the
Assize Roll and on the Parliament Rolls, is stated in the
account in the Arundel MS.3 to have been William Wigmore,
Bedel of the University, which statement I think is no doubt
correct, and at once gives us a clue to the animosity
displayed against him.
From the rains of William Bedel's house the rioters went
on to the College and Hospital of Corpus Christi, which
since it was unable to offer much resistance they soon
entered and completely sacked. Not content indeed with
pillaging the goods and chattels and destroying the muniments
of the society, the rioters, we are told, carried off even the
doors and windows of the building.
Nor did Sunday morning witness any abatement in the
fury of the rioters. First, it would seem, a sacrilegious attack
was made on the Church of St Mary, into which the mob
forced thefr way during service time, to the great alarm of
the priest then celebrating Mass and the parishioners there
assembled, and seized a certain chest, full of jewels and
" utensilia " which, it is noted, was sold to John Gibonn senior
for the sum of 10s. Proceeding thence to the monastery of
the Carmelite Brothers, which stood on a site now occupied
by Queens' College, the mob, headed by Thomas Forbishour
and others, broke into the Church there and took possession of

1 Simon Hosier by timely flight eluded the grasp of the law. His goods,
escheated to the Crown, consisted of 22s. Id. and 10 barrels of honey, of which
one had gone bad, the 9 being valued at 53s. ; they were all 10 carted up to London
to the Keeper of Victuals at the Tower.
2 Thos. Forbishour was also present at the murder of John de Cavendish, and
therefore excluded from pardon. His goods were valued at 26s. 8d.
» Arundel MSS. No. 350, fol. 15 b-18. See also Cains' Hist, of Camb. 1574,
Vol. I, 96-100,
4-2

52 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
another chest, stated to have been full of books and valuables1.
The Arundel MS. above mentioned states that the chests
thus taken by the rioters were both of them the property of
the University; the one in St Mary's Church being the
Common Chest of the University and full of muniments,
which were thereupon taken out and publicly burnt in the
Market Place, while the beldam Margaret Starre, as she flung
to the winds the ashes of priceless documents, cried out
" Away with the learning of the clerks, away with it." These
statements as to the contents of the chests are borne out by
the information given on the Rolls of Parliament2, from
which we also gather that the University was compelled by
the rioters to formally give up all the privileges which had
ever been granted them by the Crown, and to submit
themselves for all future time entirely to the rules and
governance of the municipal authorities.
Nor were these scenes of violence, which appear to be
more closely connected with the feud betwixt the town and
the University, the only outbreaks on this eventful Sunday, for
the assize roll lifts the curtain on another scene of violence,
devastation and robbery going on at the house of Roger
Harleston3, a Justice of the Peace for the county, and its
Parliamentary representative in 1377 ; the chief leaders in
this case being John Noreys, wright, Hugh Candlesby,
Thomas Lister and John his son. Harleston, it seems,
also possessed a country house at Cottenham. This had
been sacked as early as the ninth of June by the rioters
under Richard Martyn, and all the goods found there sold.
Yet another outrage occurred on Sunday, this time at the
house, in ' le Petycure ' and Market Place, belonging to John
Blankpayn, a man who appears to have been burgess for
Cambridge in Parliament of 1377 ; and whose position as one
of the Poll Tax collectors may, doubtless, help to account for
the odium which prompted the attack.
On Monday 17th June the chief interest centres in
1 The jury were ignorant as to the price of these, but estimated their value
at £20. 2 Rot. Pari. in. 108.
8 Harleston's name occurs as supervisor of Poll Tax collection,

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the great attack made by the Mayor, townsmen, and rioters
generally on the Priory at Barnwell.
At the Assizes held at Cambridge on July the 3rd, the
Prior brings a bill of complaint against Edmund Redmedowe1,
Mayor of Cambridge, in which he states that Redmedowe, as
leader of a large body of rioters, came out to Barnwell on
June 17th, and broke into the close belonging to the Priory:
and further that he and his band pulled down walls and cut
down trees to the value of £400, and that besides destroying
the pales of the Watergate, together with the gates, they
carried off fish, sedge, and turf from the premises, causing
damage to the said Prior to the value of no less than £2000.
The Prior also states that John Tyteshall, Hugh Can-
dlesby, Robert Barbour, Nich. Wympol, and Richard Martyn
were chief leaders in the insurrection.
The issues at this trial are somewhat complicated, owing
to what has alway7s proved a fruitful source of quarrel,
namely, a dispute about common rights.
The Prior had, it appears, tried to enclose some land on
which the commoners of Cambridge asserted that they had
always had the right of free pasture, in a place called Estenhall
or The Drove*. The populace seem to have seized this
opportunity- for pulling down the palings put up by the
Prior in his endeavour to enclose the land in question.
The Mayor being already in custody is brought into court.
He pleads not guilty and urges firstly, that it was a well-
known thing in Cambridge that the commons of Kent, Essex,
Herts and London, had risen in revolt and that the rising
was asserted by them to be in accordance with the King's
command ; also, that on the day in question a large number
of men from Cambridge and elsewhere surrounded him and
addressed him as follows : " You are the Mayor of this the
King's town and governor of our community, if you do not
consent to our will and commands in carrying out all that
shall be said to you on behalf of the King and his faithful
commons, y7ou will be at once beheaded" (statim decapi-

1 Edmund Redmedowe here, but sometimes called Edmund Lister.
2 Called "le Greuecroft " on the Rolls of Parliament, and in Arundel MS. 350,

54 AN ACCOUNT OF THE
tatus eris). The Mayor further states that he thereupon
asked to see the King's warrant, but this request would
seem to have been regarded by the mob as merely evasive,
for the Mayor goes on to say that he was then seized and
thereafter acted under compulsion.
Redmedowe is then further required to give in writing
the names of those who thus compelled him to act, to which
he replied that in the crowd in and around the Guildhall
there were more than 1000 men, and that he could not
remember more of them than Simon Hosier, Thomas For
bishour, John Russel, and Thomas Lister and John his son.
The explanations of the Mayor, who from his own account
seems to have been placed on the horns of a very unpleasant
dilemma, were not deemed to be satisfactory, and he was re
manded to prison. Whereupon certain trustworthy men of
the towrn of Cambridge point out to the Justices the good
character that their Mayor bore, and moreover, that, should
he be thus left in prison, the town would have no governor
to direct them in that perilous time. These considerations
appear so far to have weighed with the Justices that they
allowed the Mayor to go out on bail.
The riotous proceedings which had taken place in Cam
bridge, both in April and June, were eventually investigated
before Parliament at Westminster1, in the December following,
where the deeds which had been made under compulsion by
the University7, were of course quashed, and the functions of
the municipality and University, as to the governance of the
town, eventually rearranged on a new7 basis, apparently on
the model of Oxford.
To the trial of John Shirle of Nottinghamshire, which
took place at Cambridge on July7 16th, considerable interest
attaches on account of its incidentally throwing some light
on the nature of John Balle's preaching, which, if Shirle's
statements are to be believed, would seem to have savoured
more of politics than religion.
It appeal's that Shirle, who is described as a vagabond

1 See Cooper's Annals of Camb. I. 122, for a good precis of the information
given on the Rolls of Parliament, rein ting to these affuirs,

RISING IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 55
through diverse counties1 during the time of the rising, is
charged with having made certain statements in a Cambridge
tavern, " in quadam taverna in vico de Briggestrete," where
many congregated to listen to the news and " frivola " where
with he regaled his audience. The accusation brought
against him was that he had there said that the King's
officers and ministers were more worthy of being hung and
drawn and of suffering the various other torments inflicted
by the law, than John Balle, chaplain, who was- condemned to
death unjustly and of envy by the said ministers ; and that
John Balle was indeed an honest and true man who prophe-
cied things useful to the commons of this realm, and who set
forth the injuries and oppressions wrought on the people by
the king and his ministers ; and further, that Shirle had stated
that Balle's death2 would not long go unpunished but in
a short time would be avenged both on king and ministers.
For making these statements "inter alia verba ruinosa"
which he did not attempt to deny, he was hung at Cam
bridge. The sudden and unexpected nature of the outbreak and
the rapidity with which it spread, seem, here as elsewhere, to
have struck terror through the country and paralysed all
attempt at resistance. Nowhere indeed do we find any
evidence of a serious opposition to the insurgents, till the
arrival on the scene of Henry Spenser, Bishop of Norwich.
Capgrave, in his Liber de Illustribus Henricis, tells us
that the Bishop had heard of the riots in his diocese when in
company with the king near London ; and adds, " The pious
pastor therefore left London and came as he was bound to
succour his people. And first finding certain of this wicked
mob at Cambridge he slew7 some, imprisoned others, and
others he sent back to their homes after taking their
oath that thenceforth they would never turn out for like
purpose3." 1 "Vagabundus per diversos comitatus toto tempore perturbationis gerens
mendacia et frivola iacornmoda de patria in patriam per (mod pax domini infringi
potuit et populus inq-netari." (Assize Roll, 103. m. 5).
2 Thomas of WaL jrjgham tells us that John Balle was executed at St Albans
on July 15, 1381.
3 Capgrave, De Ibastribus Henricis, Part in. Hingeston's Translation,

56 AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISING IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
We gather then that the insurrection, which had reached
its height during the 15th, 16th, and 17th of, June ceased as
suddenly as it began, for the Assize does not record any-
serious distui'bance going on in the county after the 18th of
June. The collapse of the revolt here was, .no doubt, owing
to the advent and prompt measures of»*the> Bishop," V'hp/
probably arrived on the 18th or 19th.
The assizes, we know, had begun as early as the first of
July, which would indicate that peace had been by that time
restored on a firm footing in the county. ¦ '• *

CHAPTER IV.
GENERAL REMARKS ON THE RISING IN EAST ANGLIA.
On reviewing the rising generally, in the three counties
under consideration, there seems good reason to believe that
it was the matured result of a comprehensive plan, earned
out by mean- of a more or less perfect organisation, extending
throughout the Eastern Counties. From the fact that one
of the rebels, executed at Bury7 St Edmunds, is described as
" Georgius de Dounesby in Com. Line," and as having been
sent to Bury as the mes.-enger of a great society, it seems
probable enough that the organisation extended as far as the
Humber1 What may have been the precise nature of this
organisation does not indeed appear; but it would seem
evident that the clubs or societies, which the working classes
had already instituted, to enable them jointly to resist the
obnoxious claims for labour, must have offered a convenient
stock whereon to graft the scion of deliberate rebellion.
During the period immediately preceding the outbreak,
the revolutionary agents had been, as we have seen, hard at
work; and such men as Filmond in Norfolk, Greyston, Shirle,
and others in Cambridgeshire, kept the leaders in the various
districts in touch with each other, and also in frequent com
munication with London.
However we may endeavour to account for it, it is certainly
a remarkable fact that the outbreak was practically unopposed,
and when the storm burst there was no local force anywhere
which made any endeavour to offer protection from its fury.
It is indeed not a little surprising to read of the fall of
such a stronghold as Mettingham Castle, a place of great
defensive capabilities, having been converted from a Manor
1 See Appendix, p. 127.

58 GENERAL REMARKS
House into a strong moated fortress by Sir John de Norwich
only some 40 years previously, and which could doubtless,
with very little care, have been made impregnable to any
force which the rioters could bring against it; y7et it fell, it
would seem, an easy prey to their attacks on two occasions.
The absence of any resistance is the more noteworthy when
we find there was in existence some kind of force which might
have been made available to the authorities, namely the body
of archers which is mentioned as existing in the hundred of
Hoxne and under the command of the Chief Constable there.
As some such body must probably have been provided in
every hundred of the county, it seems unaccountable that no
effort should have been made to get together some force to
oppose the insurgents; unless indeed we suppose that sym
pathy7 for the popular cause so permeated the classes from
which they were drawn, that no force could be depended on
for action in time of emergency.
This indeed taken in conjunction with the fact that many
local magnates, with their retainers, were absent on foreign
service, appears, in the absence of any more probable sup
position, to be the most natural explanation of the fact.
One of the measures which seem to have been generally7
adopted by the revolutionary leaders in order to get the
active support of the common people, was that of giving out
that in urging all men to rise in arms they were acting on
the command and at the wish of the king. This point was
veiy fully brought out at the Cambridgeshire Assizes, but in
other places the same tactics were made use of, and in Hert
fordshire, we are even told that the Standard raised by the
rioters was emblazoned with the king's arms1. So often
indeed does the king's name appear that the question naturally
rises as to whether there may not have been some foundation
in fact for the widespread belief that he himself had encour
aged the insurrection.
When we consider the position of the king at this time,
and the great power and ambition of the Duke of Lancaster,
it seems far from improbable that the idea of guiding the
1 Coram Rege Roll 482, Rex 16.

ON THE RISING IN EAST ANGLIA. 59
popular discontent for his own advantage may have presented
itself to Richard : a.s well as the great advantage of securing
to himself the support of the people, whose power was now
first asserting itself in the political world, as a counterpoise
to the influence of his uncle. That he should have overrated
that power is probable enough, for the revolutionary leaders
themselves, who had perhaps too much of the visionary
enthusiast in them, seem to have thought their position far
stronger than it was, and did not sufficiently realise that,
without military training, mere numbers and enthusiasm
must always avail but little.
Were it passible to establish the supposition that the
king had been in communication with the leading spirits of
the rebellion, a new light would be thrown on several points
which at present stand rather in need of elucidation. Among
other things it would certainly7 lend fresh significance and
point to the animus displayed against the Duke of Lancaster,
and to the persistent malignity with which his agents were
attacked, his manors assailed, and his property destroyed,
as we have seen was the case in East Anglia. It would
also render the position of the country gentry who favoured
the insurrection more easy to understand, for otherwise they
must, one would think, have stood to lose rather than gain
by having anything to do with the movement. And it would
explain, what has always stood rather in need of explanation,
the sudden and peculiar ease with which, on the death of
Wat Tyler, the rebels transferred their allegiance to the king.
And if we suppose that even a strong suspicion had got
abroad, that the king was behind the movement, it might
well account for hesitation on the part of those in authority7
in taking prompt measures to suppress it. .
It may of course be urged that the king denied em
phatically the assertion made by the rioters, that they were
acting with his authority7 and wish, and that he caused notice
of his denial to be given in' every town and village. But his
action here, while it testifies to the widespread belief, was
not taken till June 23rd1, when he must have known that,
1 Assize Roll 103. m. 1.

60 GENERAL REMARKS
however formidable at first, the movement had no backbone
in it and was practically crushed. It would have been mad
ness then for him to avow any connection with it.
It is possible enough that the general pardon for the
rioters originated from the king, and it is, noticeable that two
offenders, who were excluded therefrom by Parliament, were
saved by the king's action.
That certain reports were current with reference to the
Duke of Lancaster having some connection with the move
ment is evidenced by the king's contradiction of them, given
in Rymer; but I have not come across any other evidence
in support of this, except that of a rather vague statement
made by a Kentish rioter of the name of Cole, which was
elicited at his trial. In that county, according to Cole, the
revolutionary party, having been informed that the duke
had freed all the natives on his estates, entertained the idea
of making him king1, though there is nothing to show that
any steps were taken to carry the idea into execution.
I have not met with any evidence to show what ideas of
constitutional reconstruction may have been entertained by
the leaders in East Anglia, nor any hint to show the existence
of such sweeping ideas of reform as are set forth in Jack
Straw's reputed confession, as given by Walsingham.
In the counties we are considering the energies of the
revolt seem to have been allowed to dissipate themselves in a
series of isolated outbreaks, and cohesion to any combined
design for offensive and defensive action would appear to
have been wanting. The leaders, blinded probably by the
immense support which the ostensible objects of the rising
commanded throughout the country, failed to recognise the
necessity of a more military organisation, and the want of
this was the chief cause of their disaster. One cannot but
feel that had a commander of real genius risen among them
the result might have been very different indeed.
The counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire
were at this time among the most thickly populated in the
kingdom, and the rising in these counties was probably, in

1 Coram Rege Roll 4S2, Rux 1. See also Arch. Cant. Vol. iv.

I

ON THE RISING IN EAST ANGLIA. 61
point of numbers, not far inferior to that of which the
interest centred in the march on London.
As far as Norfolk and Cambridgeshire arc concerned the
suppression of the revolt would appear to have been entirely
due to the prompt action of Henry Spenser. It does not
however appear that the king cherished any deep grati
tude to this martial prelate for the important service then
rendered to the state; for on his return from his unsuccessful
expedition to Flanders in the autumn of 1383 he was im
peached in Parliament by the king's direction and his tem
poralities seized for the payment of a fine1.
It would, I think, be hrqjossible to form any accurate
idea of the total numbers of the insurgent forces during the
revolt, and even with regard to the numbers present on any
of the various occasions: the legal documents as a rale confine
themselves to such expressions as "magna societas," "comi-
tiva," or the like, without venturing on figures. There are
however occasions on which figures are given. At Thetford
as we have seen the number was only 17; and at Snettisham
in Norfolk a body of 30 men under John Spanye of Lynn2
was considered large enough to approach the town to search
for men of Flanders to kill, while at the attack on the house
of Stephen de Langham in Norfolk on 17 June, a body of
200 men were employed. Again in Suffolk on the occasion
of the first attack on Mettingham Castle, where one would
imagine they would muster as strong as possible, the numbers
present are estimated in the indictments at 500.
At the fierce nocturnal assault made on the Abbey of
St Benedict de Hulm in Norfolk the attacking party, we
are told, were thought to number about 400 men. Again
the Mayor of Cambridge, when on trial for the part he took
in the riots there, estimates the number of rioters who met
before the Guildhall at over one thousand men, a number
which, by the way, would have exceeded half the population
of the town at this time. Li Essex indeed, where according
to Walsingham's account, as many as eight hundred horses
were taken from the rebels on their final defeat, it is possible
i Stubbs, Const. Hist. n. 466. 2 Appendix, p. 135.

62 GENERAL REMARKS
that the mu.stei' may have been much larger, being perhaps
collected in as great force as possible for a final effort. I
jloubt however if his figures can be relied on as correct.
The bulk of the insurgent forces were no doubt composed,
for the most part, of the labouring and servile classes who
formed so large a proportion of the- population; but, as we
have seen, the country gentry, whose guidance in military
matters must have been much required, were by no means
unrepresented at their musters : so much indeed were their
services in demand that on some occasions it seems then-
presence and active assistance were forcibly compelled by the
rioters. Many of the minor clergy1, it is also to be noted,
were eager partizans in the insurrection; several who are
described as " capellani " were actively engaged in the scenes
of violence that took place, and did not shrink from dyeing
their hands in blood.
On the other hand the regular clergy who inhabited the
larger religious houses, had evidently made themselves the
object of the intense hatred of the common people, and were
persistently attacked during the rising.
From the lists of names which occur on the Coram Rege
Rolls and elsewhere, it would seem also that a fair proportion
of the tradesman and artizan class from the towns had thrown
in their lot with the insurgents.
In spite of considerable inconsistency of action, we may
certainly deduce from the conduct of the insurgents some of
the more prominent ideas which animated them. First, no
doubt, was that of resistance to exorbitant taxation, of which
the late developments came as the crowning evil of a period
of intolerable oppression brought about by the Statutes of
Labourers. The idea also which was expressed by their destruction
of the records of the Manorial Courts, namely, that now was
the opportunity to break the chain which bound the native
to the soil, and at the same time to destroy the weapon which
the Manorial lords were ruthlessly using to regain and enforce
such service as had been withdrawn, was one which seems to
1 Among these we note a Nicholas Bacon, and John Oxeford "clericns hosti-
arius scole de Clare." List of indicted persons, Ant. Indictments, 128.

ON THE RISING IN EAST ANGLIA. 63
have been ever present to the minds of the insurgents, and
to have largely influenced their action. No doubt also to
this idea must be traced the great hatred evinced to any who
were skilled in the study and practice of the law7.
It would seem indeed that the natives and customaries
must have been in a desperate condition, or very certain
of complete success, before they would have thus willingly
destroyed in their struggle for liberty the title-deeds to their
own estates, which were contained in the Court Rolls of the
Manor. It is also to be noted that an intense and deeply
rooted hostility7, only to be appeased by savage and immediate
slaughter, appears to have been felt by7 the insurgents through
out the country against the men of Flanders, whose immi
gration had been encouraged for financial reasons by the late
king. Perhaps indeed from Chaucer's allusion to this in the
Nonne's Tale we may7 suppose that the slaughter of Flemings
was popularly considered as a very leading feature in the
revolt. We may perhaps not be wrong in thinking that by the
frequency of attack upon men who had sat in various parlia
ments since 1376, of which in the three counties of Norfolk,
Suffolk and Cambridgeshire there are not less than 10
instances, some idea of bringing home to burgess and knight of
the shire an increased sense of the responsibility attaching to
their position may have been intended, especially perhaps in
the matter of taxation.
The question as to how far and in what directions the
rising of 1381 effected a permanent change for the better in
the condition of the working classes, it is not my purpose
now to consider ; but it may be interesting to take a glance
at some evidence as to the condition of affairs in two Suffolk
Manors, during the period more immediately succeeding the
revolt. It is certainly rather surprising to find, in a manor in the
midst of a disturbed district, where one would naturally
expect that there w7ould have been great difficulty in enforcing
services at all, that during the period 1377-1384 there is no
indication on the Court Roll* that anything unusual was going
on in the way of defect of service ; but such is the case.

64 GENERAL REMARKS
The following instance however is I think worth quoting
to show that after the rising it was considered advisable on
this manor, at least, to make great efforts to enforce the legal
rights of the owner, which for some time previously had
been allowed to lapse.
The case in question occurs on the Court Rolls of the
Manor of Barton Parva in Suffolk, which at this time belonged
to the Cellarer of the Abbey of St Edmundsbury, and of
which the Court Rolls from 1377 to 1384 are extant: A small
Manor within this Manor was held by Sir John Shardelow,
Knight and Chivaler by the service of 15 precarise in autumn.
In the first few rolls there is the yearly note that the service
had not been rendered and that a fine should be levied and
no further notice apparently taken. In the years 1383 and
1384 however the matter is much more carefully gone into,
and it is then stated that these services had now been with
held for no less than 30 years (which shows that the with
drawal of service had begun soon after the pestilence), and a
distraint is made upon Shardelow's goods. Two of his horses
are seized and he is ordered to answer to the lord for 28
years of arrears ; unfortunately the rolls end here, so that we
cannot trace the matter further, but this is enough to show
that energetic steps were taken to enforce the rights of the
owner. But while there is evidence that service and custom
where they had fallen in abeyance were frequently claimed,
and the claims supported by the law, there is also evidence to
show that in the country districts a sturdy7 resistance to ren
dering predial service of any kind was organised afresh soon
after the rising. In illustration of this point I will give a
short report of a case which came before the Ipswich Assizes in
September 1385, and which is recorded at length on Assize
Roll No. 861, preserved in the Record Office.
The case refers to the Manor of Littlehawe in Thurston,
near Bury St Edmunds, of which Robert de Ashfield was
lord. A charge is here brought against the " natives by blood,"
and the " customaries who held as natives," of this Manor
to the number of 15, which probably was the total number

GENERAL REMARKS. 65
of them, that they, acting with the counsel and advice of
Robert the parson of Thurston Church, Simon his chaplain,
John Aubrey and four others, had for the last three years
past withdrawn their services due to the lord, claiming to
be free from all, with the single exception of a rent of four-
pence per acre. One of the larger holders of the 15 was
Robert Soutere of Thurston, a native by blood, who held 24
acres and two messuages for which he paid a yearly rent of
4cZ. per acre besides Id. per acre which was paid in accordance
with an ancient custom called "le unyeld." Three hens
were due from him to the lord at Christinas, and 15 eggs at
Easter, he was bound to perform two days' ploughing1 in the
year, and four half-days mowing grass, and in haymaking he
was to have the help of the other customaries when needful.
He also had to hoe for two half-days, and reap for six days
in autumn, and to carry corn one day, if he had a cart and
horses. Fines were also due if he or his sons or his daughters
should many, his tenement was subject to a heriot of a
"better beast" on his death, and his heir paid a fine on entry.
He also had to fulfil the office of Propositus and Messor (or
head reaper) when it fell to his turn. The other tenants
held similarly in proportion to their various holdings. They
were further charged with being in diverse clubs and bound
together by- oath to resist the lord's claims.
The jury after due investigation found a true bill against
the defendants, namely that they had withdrawn their services,
refused to allow distraint, and threatened the lord's agents ;
and further that they were "bound together by words," in
clubs (conventiculis), though not by oath, as was stated in
the charge, for the purpose above mentioned ; also that they
had made collections "tallagia" among themselves and others
for their common cost amounting in each year to about the
sum of six pounds.
We are also told that they had obtained exemplifications
from Domesday under the great seal, but that these were of
no use in the matter.
1 "Cum carnca sua si jungat tempore seminationis framenti et avene sine
resumsione." p. 5

66 THE RISING IN EAST ANGLIA.
It was decided that their claim to be free could not be
upheld and that they had ever been and were "nativi."
The jmnishments inflicted were fines which amounted in
all to nearly £3. And there seems reason to believe that
cases of this kind were not uncommon, especially on manors
where the customs were irksome or strictly enforced.
In looking back across the five centuries that separate
us from the portentous outbreak of 1381, when the great
working class of England, roused to fury by the goad of relent
less taxation, turned so fiercely to bay, we cannot, even while
justly condemning their violence, withhold a large measure of
sympathy7 both for the ideas which prompted, and for the
results which followed thefr action.
And though the attempt was then frustrated and the
rising crushed, and that to the great and unquestionable
advantage of the nation as a whole, yet, apart from the
objects which were more consciously pursued, the effort
marks an important epoch.
It emphasized to the country at large, in a way there
vyas no possibility of mistaking, the fact that the working
classes had arrived at a position of great power ; and though
perhaps in disclosing that power they had also disclosed
their inability, as yet, to use it to the greatest effect, yet
their strength and position had been shown to be such as
no rulers could with safety ignore.

APPENDIX I.

TRANSCRIPTS OF ALL THE POLL TAX LISTS WHICH
REMAIN IN THE RECORD OFFICE FOR THE COUNTY
OF SUFFOLK. Hundred of Thingo
Analysis of Poll Taxes (1381)

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Barrow - - -
71
42
29
6
16
28
21
Brockley cum Rede
70
39
31
2
10
17
8
33
Chevington
78
41
37
—
1
8
34
35
Flempton - -
33
17
16
—
8
—
13
12
Fornham All Saints
32
23
9
—
2
10
10
10
Hargrave -
39
20
19
—
—
5
34
—
Hawsted1 -
63
32
31
—
2
6
38
17
Hengrave - -
36
21
15
1
1
—
17
17
Horningsheath Magna
53
33
20
i —
—
5
21
27
,, Parva
21
9
12
2
—
10
9
Ickworth
47
28
19
2
—
3
21
21
Lackford
49
28
21
—
8
20
21
Nowton
28
17
11
i —
1
- —
15
12
Risby
57
30
27
; —
—
—
11
46
Saxharn Magna
38
22
16
; —
—
5
23
10
„ Parva - -
57
34
23
! 4
14
6
—
33
Westley - - -
36
18
18
i
6
4
10
16
Whepsted
62
33
29
1- ! 9
53
9
31
22
Total -
870
487
383
102
344
362
[-130 Lay Subsidy-I
|_49 Suffolk J
hundbedum de thyngowe
Villa de Baewe
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendrynge
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
i It is interesting to compare with this the return of inhabitants over 16 made
by the Rector to the Bishop of Norwich in April 1706, which was SI men and 93
women. (Hawsted Par. Reg.)
5—2
68

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum Rosschebroke chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex altera parte Willelmum Lyly Johannem Meriel
Johannem Smyt Symonem Warner constabularios et subcollec-
tores ejusdem subsidii ville de Barwe ex tercia parte de numero
et nominibus subscriptis de statu et gradu eorum.

Agricole
Stephanus Hegeman - -)
Alicia uxor ejus -J
Johannes Lyly - - )
Claricia uxor ejus - -j
Johannes Prycke - -)
Christiana uxor ejus -j
Artifices
Johannes Warde, drapere)
Matildis uxor ejus - -j
Johannes Norman, messer)
Isabella uxor ejus -j"
Johannes Soatere, soutere)

Emma uxor ejus
Johannes Dekne, talyor
Margareta uxor ejus - -
Johannes Smyth, smyt -
Johanna uxor ejus - -
Ricardus Meryel, bocher
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Spark, icebstere
Johanna uxor ejus
Walterus Turnour, turnur
Sibilia uxor ejus -

Laboratores
Agneta Doraunt
Johannes Lane
Alicia uxor ejus
Henricus Lane
Willelmus Lylye
Isabella uxor ejus
Johannes Brustal
Margeria uxor ejus
Petrus Fen- - -
Claricia uxor ejus
Johannes Adam
Johannes Massote
Johanna uxor ejus

:)

XI]
xij
xij

Laboratores (cont.) i
Johannes Boys - 1 ,
Agneta uxor ejus - -/ ,
Robertus Mud - - )
Isabella uxor ejus -/
Walterus Slautere
Johannes Hamund -]
Margeria uxor ejus -J
Walterus Deke
Johannes Meryel -)
Agneta uxor ejus - -}
Adam Warner -
Katerina uxor ejus
Walterus Dey
Margeria uxor ejus
Caterina Schot

Servientes
Ricardus Norman
Sibilia Meryel - -
Ricardus Ayloch, junior
Johannes Wjfford
Johannes Gautron
Henricus Holm
Ricardus Trim ... - )
Alicia uxor ejus -j~
Johannes Scherwy ... -
 Meryel -
Johannes Kyneyston
Walterus Calle -)

ejus

 uxor
Katerina Bele
Ricardus Calve
Johannes Lyly
Ricardus Ayloch, senior
Johannes Ketyl
 uxor ejus -
Johannes Aylnot
Johannes Dey -

xij
xij
xij

V11J iiij
vnj mj
vnj mj

xij
xijxij

xij
xijxij sij

xij xij

Summa nominum, lxxi
Summa denariorum, Ixxis.

APPENDIX I.

69

"180
L.49

r^&

180 Lay Subsidy-]
"34 Suffolk J

Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Tendrynge
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum de Rosshebrok et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii
ex altera parte et Simonem le Smyth Johannem Shortnekke
Johannem Hybele Johannem le Bole Johannem Wysman et
Johannem Cressener constabularios et subcollectores ville de
Brokleygh cum Reede ex tercia parte de numero et nominibus
subscriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem videlicet.
Villa de Brokele cum Rede Thynghowe

Armiger
Willelmus de Walsham -\
Elizabetha uxor ejus -J

Agricole
Johannes de Somerion -)
Beatrix uxor ejus - - j
Johannes Shortnekke -1
Beatrix uxor ejus - -j
Thomas Alston - )
Caterina uxor ejus -j
Galf ridus Alisander - >
Agneta uxor ejus - )"
Simon Aubry - )
Johanna uxor ejus -j

Artifices
Simon Smyth, faber - -1
Idonia uxor ejus - - 1
Johannes Bole, bra.*iator\
Alicia uxor ejus - - 1
Willelmus Walspryng, ]
sherman - - - r
Johanna uxor ejus - )
Johannes Mayhew, senior )
Isabella uxor ejus - - - J
Johannes le Grom. bra-)
siator - j-
Margeria uxor ejus - J
Robertus Sourale, icebbe- 1
stere - - - -f
Johannes Wrytgh, car- )
penter -
Isabella uxor ejus - j

i

mj

XI]

Artifices (cont.)
Johannes Hibele, pedder
Caterina uxor ejus
Johannes Wysman, car
penter
Petronilla uxor ejus -
Laboratores
Johannes Mayhew, junior, '
laborer - - - -
Alicia uxor ejus - ¦
Johannes Sculton, laborer
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes  ag laborer
Alicia uxor ejus
Galfridus Sonemau - 1
Semila uxor ejus -j
Servientes
Johannes Baronn, cam-'
carius Willelmi de Brok
leygh :
Alicia uxor ejus
Stephanus Gardener ser-\
viens Johannis de Rok- 1
wode - - j
Johanna uxor ejus - -)
Johannes Sty ward serviens )
persone de Brokleygh - Y
Margeria uxor ejus - -J
Johannes Wotton serviens )
Cecilia uxor ejus - - -j
Ricardus Shortnekke her-)
carius Willelmi le Hore 1
Alicia uxor ejus - -)

XV11J xviij xvj
iiij

XV11J

xvnj

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SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Servientes (cont.)
Willelmus Sonem

Isabella uxor ejus1 • -]
Ricardus Meller serviens)
W. le Hore
Anna uxor ejus -J
Johanna Fouke se)viens~\
Ricardi Fouke - -)
Johannes Alisander shcp- 1
herde, rcortuus est - - 1
Willelmus Lyng serviens)
Simonis le Smith - -/
Ricardus . . . llin serviens I
Willelmi de Walsham j
 serviens Willelmi)
de Brokleygh -/
Johannes Gardener ser
viens Johannis.de Rok-
wode -
Isabella Bole vannator et)
serviens - -j
 Shortnekke ser-)
rieiis Johannis Short
nekke - - -

'-[;

n.

d. ji

ij

!

ij

xij

xij

vi

viij

X
X
viij
iiij 1
Servientes (cont.)
Johannes filius Johannis
de Somerton - -
 bel filia et serviens
dicti Johannis
Walterus  serviens
dicti Johannis
Simon Shepherd servient
dicti Johannis
Caterina Freman serviens
Thome Alston
Johannes Mayhew ser
viens W. Hore -
Caterina uxor ejus
Johannes Cressener cam
carius .... Brokleygh
Amicia uxor ejus - - -
Walterus Neng serviens
in Villa 
Johannes filius et serviens
Johannis Wysman - -
d.
iiij
iiijiiij
iiijiiij
xn vi
Summa personarum, lxx
Summa denariorum, lxxs.
rlSO Lay Subsidy-]
[_49 Suffolk J
Hundeedum de Thyngowe
Villa de Chewyngton
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra-irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
de Rosschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii
et altera parte Johannem Cartere Willelmum Pumpyn Willelmum
Martyn Robertum Mayhew constabularies et subcollectores ejus
dem subsidii ville de C'hewyngton ex tercia parte de numero et
de nominibus subscriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem.
1 The subsequent part of this document is in the parcel marked — - , and is
34
endorsed ¦¦ Hundreduin de Thyngo Rotuli collectoris . . . Tudeuham summa .
istorum xviij rotulorum . . . dccclxx  xliij . li . x . s."
APPENDIX I.

71

Villa de Chevyxgton

Agricola
Johanues Pekc

Artifices
Michaelus Writhe, ca
penter
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Sped, icebstere
Johanna uxor ejus
Willelmus Coupere, brou-
stere • -
Sabbe uxor ejus - -
Willelmus Fuller, fuller '
Isabella uxor eju3

Laboratores
Johannes Cartere -
Margareta uxor ejus -
Willeloms Pumpyn
Sabbe uxor ejus
Willelmus Martyn
Alicia uxor ejus
Robertus Mayhew
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Russyn -
Alicia uxor ejns
Johannes Osbern -
Margareta uxor ejus -
Willelmus Dicere -
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Smalwode -
Isabella uxor ejus
Henricus Mayster
Margareta uxor ejus
Johannes Tyle - -
Ebota uxor ejus
Salamon Melk -
Alicia uxor ejus

:}

d.

Laboratores (cont.)
Johannes Page
Julia uxor ejus
Robertus Lane
Alicia uxor ejus
Robertus Hardfot
Margareta uxor ejus . j \
Johannes Cawynham -) '
•Johanna uxor ejus -[«
Willelmus Chyld - -) '
Margareta uxor ejus -f'
Willelmus Fot -
Alicia Nicole

Servientes
Agneta Osburn - -
Ehud Deye -
Robertus Spak-
Alicia Stonham
Matildis Meller
Willelmus Pumpyn, j unior
Johannes Tornor -
Johannes Redynhale
Marion Attemer -}
Johannes Falis -j
Elena Hamind
Rosa Ide
Agneta Mery
 . . elle . .
Henricus Bernerewe ¦
Johannes Deye
Rosa uxor ejus
Johannes Nottynge
Johannes Hoo - -)
Johanna uxor ejus -)'

d.

(remainder of Roll gone1)

xijxij

Xijxij
xijxijxijxij
xijxij

xijxij
xijxij

["180 Lay Subsidy-]
L 43 Suffolk J Htjndbedum de Thynghowe
Villa de Flempton
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra rotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
1 On the back of the Roll for Brockley is a statement to the effect that the total
number of names on the 18 rolls for the Hundred of Thiugo amounted to 870. As
this Chevington Roll is the only one imperfect of the 18, we can infer that there
Were 15 more Servientes here than are given above.

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SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum de Russhebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex parte altera et Edmundum Edryck et Johannem
Bele subcunstabularios et Johannem Mayhew Johannem Walhous
subcollectores ville de Flempton ex tercia parte de numero et
nominibus subscriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem videlicet.

Servientes
Willelmus West
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes West
Ricardus Dun
Margareta uxor eju^
Willelmus Gosse -
Alicia uxor ejus
Alexander Saylour
Agneta Wade
Johannes Bele -
Agneta uxor ejus
Robertus Donne
Augrecole
Johannes Welhous
Alicia uxor ejus -
Johannes Hemysby
Matildis uxor ejus
Edmundus Edryk

Villa de Flempton

«.

d.

iiij

liij

xvi

xii
xii
xii
xii
xii
ij
xii
xii
xii
xviii
xviii
xviii
xviij
xviij
Augrecole (cont.)
s.
d.
Isabella uxor ejus
xviij
Willelmus Peyton
'j
Emma, uxor ejus
ij
Laboratores
Robertus Clere
iiij
Johanna uxor ejus
liij
Thomas Sare
mj
Johannes Barat -
mj
Edmundus Chapeleyn
iiij
Willelmus Pope
xviii
Agneta uxor ejus -
xviii
Johannes Ber ....
xii
Isabella uxor ejus
xii
Margareta Dun
iiij
Alicia Clement
iiij
Margareta Goche -
inj
Agneta Saylour
iiij
Nomina personarum, xxxiij
Summa denariorum, xxxiijs.
rl84 Lay Subsidy-]
|_49 Suffolk J
hundkedum de tyxghowe
Villa de Foknham omnium Sanctorum
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
Rosschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex
parte altera Walterum Payn Thomam Payn Hugonem Mason
Willelmum Chapman constabularies et subcollectores ejusdem
subsidii de Fornham omnium sanctorum ex tercia parte de
numero et nominibus subscriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem
videlicet.
APPENDIX I.

Agrecola
Robertus Batisfforde-
Mabbilia uxor ejus

Laboratores
Walterus Payn, bruicster
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Colkyrke, brow-
ster -
Agneta uxor ejus -
Galfridus Angold -
Hugo Mason
Christiana uxor ejus
Willelmus Schapman -
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Bettys

Artifices
Thomas Payn •
Matildis uxor ejus

»J

xij

xij

Summa
Summa

Artifices (cont.)
Johannes Wnlcard, barker)
Emme Walcard mater
ej us - - - )
Henricus Smyth, faber -
Nicholaus Smith, faber
Walterus Taylor "-
Johannes Wodecok, tajy- '
lor - - j
Robertus Calf -
Johannes Wrythe
Servientes
Alicia Dockynge
Sarra Calf
Ricardus ate Brygge-
Johannes ate Fen
Johannes Warde -
Stephanus Storych
| Johannes Angold -
I Adam Roggere - -
j Galfridus Horn
Ive Warde

nommum, xxxij
denariorum, xxxijt.

73

XIJxij
xij xij
xijxij

iiij
viij xijxij
xijxijxijxij xijxij

("180 Lay Subsidy-]
l_49 Suffolk "J HUNDREDUM DE ThYNGHOWE
Villa de Hakdgrave
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendrynge
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domini Regis ei concessi videlicet de qualibet persona
laiea tres grotas anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum Rosshebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex altera parte Robertum Hoketon Adam Anable
Johannem Frost Walterurn Anable subcollectores dicti subsidii
ville de Hargrave ex tercia parte de numero et de nominibus
subscriptis de gradu et statu eorundem.

Laboratores
Robertus Hoketon
Emme uxor ejus -
Adam Anable -
Cissilia uxor ejus -
Johannes Frost
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Thurgor
Alicia uxor ejus

¦il

d.

Laboratores (cont.)
Walterus Anable
Alicia uxor ejus
Walterus Riche
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Nicole
Alicia uxor ejus
Rogeru3 Algi
Margeria uxor ejus -

s.

-1¦)

ij

-1
-1

ij

-1-i

'j

- 1

ij

d.

74

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Laboratores (cont.)
Robertus Kyppynge
Alicia uxor ejus
Ricardus Page -
Johanna uxor ejus
Robertus Anable
Agneta uxor ejus -
Willelmus de Kent
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Page
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Kyppynge -
Isabella uxor ejus
Ricardus Tankard
Agneta uxor ejus -

T180 Lay Subsidy-]
|_49 "Suffolk J

Laboratores (cont.)-
Thomas Smith
Alicia uxor ejus
Ricardus Chawseler
Alicia uxor ejus

Artifices
Willelmus Carpon, talyor\
Emme uxor ejus - -j
Willelmus Powgwene,
brewstere - - -
Caterina uxor ejus
Robertus Parys

Summa nominum, xxxix

d. xij
xij

xijxij

XIJ

HUNDREDUM DE TyHYNGOWE
Villa de Hawsted1
Heo indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendrynge
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum Roschebroke chevaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex parte altera Johannem Moryel, Willelmum Walkelynge,
Johannem Boydyn, Johannem Warde, constabularies et collectores
ejusdem subsidii [de] villa de Hawsted ex tercia parte de numero
et nominibus subscriptis et de gradu et statu eorandeiu.

1 From an extent of the manor of Hawsted, it appears that there were at
Hawsted in 1358, thirty 'libere tenentes,' two of whom lived at Bury, and eleven
' nativi.' The former class held only 104J acres between them, many apparently
holding only a messuage, while the latter class held 146J acres. On comparing
these figures with the poll tax record, we find that the number of householders
given there as laboratores and artifices together is twenty-six, and that of the
servientes eleven, a coincidence of numbers which seems to point to the use of the
word servientes in the poll tax as equivalent to ' nativi,' and that the laboratores
and artifices corresponded very much to the ' libere tenentes ' of the manors. On
comparing the names hi the two documents, one is struck at once by the great
change which had taken place in them, for of the thirty 'libere tenentes' in 1358
only four, viz. : John Ward, John Boydyn, John Kertlyng, and William Walk-
lynge appear in the poll tax, and of the eleven nativi only one, Thomas Frame,
remains. Such a change, I think, can only be accounted for on the supposition
that this parish was subjected to a very severe visitation of the plague in 1361 or
1369.

APPENDIX I.

75

Agrkola
Johannes atte Grene
Genne uxor ejus
Laboratvre*
Walterus Bernard
Agneta uxor ejus -
Petrus Ward
Alicia uxor ejus
Emma Gekes
Alicia Clark
Edmundus Stonham
Ebote uxor ejus
Johannes Pypere -
Matildis uxor ejus .
Johannes Fullere -
Elena uxor ejus -
Johannes Godhall
Johannes Cokeman
Agneta uxor ejus-
Johannes Boydyn
Emma uxor ejus -
Johannes Certlenge
Ricardus Kes
Katerina uxor ejus
Sandre Ide - ¦
Isabella uxor ejus
Johannes Ward
Claricia uxor ejus
Johannes Deye
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Benyth
Johannes Wastel
Letieia uxor ejus -
Katerina Wele

1

-I

-J'

d.

xijxij

Xij

X'J

XIJ

XIJ

Laboratores (cont.)
. Johannes Heyward
I Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Hebyl
Katerina uxor ejus
Johannes Moryel
Alicia uxor ejus
Willelmus Walkelynge -
Margareta uxor ejus- -
Johannes Wryte, carpen-
tarius - -
Willelmus Smyth, faber
Rosa uxor ejus - -)
Johannes Fouke, faber -
Robertus Hurt, webstere )
Emma uxor ejus - -}
Servientes
Johannes Clerk -
Johannes Heyward -)
Elsete uxor ejus -}
| Johannes Tyby - \
j Johanna uxor ejus - j
Willelmus Cokerel - i
Isabella uxor ejus
Willelmus Clerk
Ebete uxor ejus
Thomas Frame
Matildis uxor ejus
Thomas Mower
Cristina uxor ejus
Claricia Hoppere -
Amy Deye -
Simon Mors
Katerina Norfolke

(/.

xij

XIJ

XIJ
Xljxij
XljXljXlj

rl80 Lay Subsidy-]
|_49 Suffolk J
Hundredum de Thtnghowe
VlLLATA DE IlEMGRAVE
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Tendringge
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrarotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex parte una et
Willelmum de Rosshebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex parte altera et Willelmum atte Crouch Nicholaum
atte Heth subconstabularios et Robertum Fulhond Edmundum
Bogeys subcollectores ejusdem ville de Hemgrave ex tercia
parte de numero et nominibus subscriptis et de gradu et statu
eorundem videlicet.

76

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Armiger

0.

d.

Thomas Hemgrave

vij

Servientes

Robertus le Qwte

X
Margeria uxor ejus
X
Johannes Barkere !
X
Margareta uxor ejus -
x
Robertus le Qwyte
vi
Agneta uxor ejus -
vi
Johannes Clement
xij
Margareta uxor ejus
Xlj
Johannes Bogeys -
vj
Sarra uxor ejus -
yj
Robertus Fulhond
ix
Beatrix uxor ejus
ix
Willelmus Dawe
vi
Walterus Brese
vij
Dulcia Bullok -
ix
Robertus Angold -
xij
Beatrix uxor ejus
xij
Laboratores
s.
d.
Petrus Sebourgh
viij
Benedictus Wynyeve
viij
Robertus West
vj
Alicia uxor ejus
vj
Johannes Langham
xviij
Caterina uxor ejus
xviij
Jacobus Trenchemere
xij
Alicia le Smyth
xij
Laurence Wysman
vj
Alicia uxor ejus
vj
Thomas Bayly
mj
Nicholaus atte Heth
viij
Alicia uxor ejus
viij
Willelmus atte Crouch -
xviij
Margeria uxor ejus
xviij
Edmundus Bogeys
viij
Beatrix uxor ejus
viij
Agricola
Galfridus Clement
ij
Summa nominum, xxxvi
Summa denariorum, xxxvis.
[180 Lay Subsidy-]
49 Suffolk J
hundredum de thyngowe
Villa de Hornyngeserth Magna
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendrynge
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domini Regis ei concessi videlicet de qualibet persona
laiea tres grotas anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum Rosschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex altera parte Johannem Bricete Johannem Dane
Galfridum Wepstede Robertum Gobet constabularios et subcol
lectores ejusdem subsidii [de] villa de Hornyngeserth Magna ex
tercia parte de numero et nominibus subscriptis de gradu et
statu eorundem.
Robertus Gobet, draper )
Alicia uxor ejus - j
Michaelis Gos, carpenter)
Alicia uxor ejus - -/ !
Robertus Prest, carpenter
Laboratores
Johannes Dane
Alicia uxor ejus - ) i
iiij
xij
Laboratores (cont.)
Johannes Brycete
Johanna uxor ejus
Galfridus Wepstede
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Bare
Isabella uxor ejus
Thomas Coupere -
Margeria uxor ejus
Symon Jent
-1
d.
in]
xij
APPENDIX I.

77

Laboratores (cont.)
Benedictus Knyth
Johanna uxor ejus
Willelmus Brend
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Busschop
Cristina mater ejus
Alanus Noble
Katerina uxor ejus
Nioholaus Gandawe
Johanna uxor ejus

Servientes
Johannes Alysawe
Johanna Fyssche -
Robertus Boyler
Adam Godefrey
Katerina uxor ejus
Edmundus Kynch
Johannes Godefrey

s.

d.

¦I-)

ij

-1

ij

-)

ij

iiij

-1 -J

ij

viij

-)

ij

viij viij
viij

:)

ij

xij
viij

Summa Summa

Servientes (cont. )
Johannes Ryngedale -
Robertus Asscheman
Thomas Brend
Willelmus Godefrey
Ricardus Goos -
Johannes Newhawe
Matildis Lewote
Margeria Lewote
Thomas Rose
Agneta Rungeton -
Johannes Clerk
Thomas Blok
Agneta uxor ejus
Willelmus Driwer
Johauna uxor ejus
Johannes Pypere -
Thomas Clenewalle
Johannes Pye
Margaria uxor ejus
Robertus Godefrey

nominum, liij
denariorum, liiis.

VIIJ xijxij xij
xij
viij xij
xijXlj
Xlj xij

XIJ
Xlj

XIJ

"180 Lay Subsidy-]
_ 49 Suffolk J
Hornyngesherth parva in hundredo de Thynghowe

Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrarotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum de Rosshebroke chivaler et socios suos collectores
dicti subsidii ex altera parte.

Augricola

S.

d.

Johannes Lacford -|

ij

Emma uxor ejus - -j
ij
Servientes
Robertus Hermer - -
xij
Rosia uxor ejus
xij
Thomas Lacford
Xlj
Caterina uxor ejus
Xlj
Johannes Goldynge, j unior
Xlj
Matildis Goldynge
xij
Rogerus Gardiner -
Xlj
Johannes Eudham
Xlj
Margeria uxor ejus
xij
Laboratores
Rosia le Smyth
Alicia Hermer - -
Emma Hermer
Johannes Goldynge
Sabina uxor ejus -
Emma Goldynge
Thomas Pulrose
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Aubry
Emma Dun
d. xijxij vj
xij
Xlj
xiiij iiij
mj xij
viij
Summa personarum, xxi
Summa denariorum, xxi*.
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L.49

Suffolk

HUNDREDUM DE ThYNGHOWE
Villa de Icworth
Hec indentura ti-ipartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
Rosschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex
altera parte Johannem Barker, Nicholaum Barker, Thomam
Bonys, Johannem Taylor constabularies et subcollectores ejusdem
subsidii de Icworth ex tercia parte de numero et nominibus
subscriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem.

Armiger
Thomas Icworth
Agneta uxor ejus

Laboratores
Johannes Barker
Isabella uxor ejus
Nicholaus Barkere
Alicia uxor ejus
Thomas Bonys
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Taylor
Johanna uxor ejus
Eogerus Godffrey -
Matildis uxor ejus
Walterus Beneyt
Johanna uxor ejus
Thoma3 Page
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Caunceler -
Alicia uxor ejus
Johanna ate Park
Willelmus de Saxhain
Stephanus Chetebeie
Ricardus Canon -
Agneta uxor ejus -

vj

XIJ
Xlj Xlj

A rtifices
Simon Canon, broicstere)
Alicia uxor ejus -j
Petras ate Halle -
Servientes
Thomas Goldeford -
Agneta serviens Thome )
Ikworth ¦ - j
Radulf us serviens ejusdem
Radulfus Choke - -)
Johannes Schabayle - - 1
servientes domino j
Johannes Hary
Matildis Beneyt
Robertus Pye
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Tracy
Willelmus Bareleg - )
Caterina uxor ejus -j"
Johannes Sayham -) i
Amissia uxor ejus -j
Willelmus Borel -)
Agneta uxor ejus- -j
Thomas filius Johannis)

Barkere
Johannes Carters -
Alicia Baron
Thomas Benyngton
Petrus atte Halle -

-

d.

Xljxij
viij
viij iiijmj
viij xijxijXlj vj
xvj
xviij

xij
xij xijXljxij

Summa nominum, xlvij
Summa denariorum, xlviis,

APPENDIX I.

79

rT80 Lay Subsidy-]
L 49 Suffolk J
Hundredum de Thungow
Villa de Lakford
Hec indentuia tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendrynge
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum Rosschebrok Chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex altera parte Benedictum ate Cherche Johannem
Schepperde Adam Ate Well Johannem Flemton constabularios
et subcollectores ejusdem subsidii ville de Lacforde ex tercia
parte de numero et nominibus subscriptis de gradu et statu
eorundem.

Laboratores
Benedictus ate Sherche )
Agneta uxor ejns - - j"
Johannes Schepperde -)
Margeria uxor ejus -j
Adam ate Well -1
Isabella uxor ejus - |"
Johannes Flemton -1
Agneta uxor ejus - -j
Robertus Buk
Willelmus Brese - 1
Alicia uxor ejus -j
Johannes Cartere - - 1
Agneta uxor ejus- -j
Willelmus the Heyr -
Bartolomaus Brese -1
Isabella uxor ejus -j
Johannes Kennygale - - )_
Margeria uxor ejus -j
Petrus Dowe -1
Alicia uxor ejus -j
Artifices
Radulfus Baldewene, tay-)
lor ¦
Margeria uxor ejus -J
Simon Schordewaner, )
schordewaner ¦ r
Amissia uxor ejus - -j

d.

Xlj

Xlj

U !

Artifices (cont.)
Walterus Webbe, webbe )
Ibote uxor ejus • -j"
Willelmus Thashere, \

thashere
Caterina uxor ejus

Servientes
Johannes Page -)
Alicia uxor ejus -j
Johannes Hervy
Radulfus Thommyssone
Amissia uxor ejus
Johannes Purstone
Matildis uxor ejus -)"
Willelmus Page -)
Johanna uxor ejus - -j"
Humfrey Mowere - -)
Agneta uxor ejus - - J
Nicholaus Schompayn -)
Caterina uxor ejus - -j"
Petrus Rolf -
Willelmus Dowe - -)
Margeria uxor ejus -i"
Johannes Deye - - -I
Agneta uxor ejus - -J
Johannes Baldewene
Johannes Tyncewyk -
Walterus Mayster

vnj xvj

xvj

xij

vnj xijxij

Summa nominum, xlix
Summa denariorum, xlixs,

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SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

T180 Lay Subsidy-]
|_T9 Suffolk J HUNDREDUM DE TllYNGHOWE
Villa de Nowton
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Tendryng
chivaler et Socios suos assessores et contrarotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum de Rosshebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex parte altera.

Avgricola

».

d.

Simon Serjaunt -

ij

Servientes

Rogerus Sterme

xviij
Margeria uxor ejus
xviij
Johannes Welham
xviij
Johanna uxor ejus
xviij
Thomas le Koo
xij
Anna uxor ejus
Xlj
Henricus Buttre
xviij
Beatrix uxor ejus
xviij
Alyn Sheperd -
xiij
Matildis uxor ejus
xiij
Johannes Bullok
xij
Alicia uxor ejus
Xlj
Laboratores
Nicholaus Horsecroft
Alicia uxor ejus
Willelmus Godwene
Caterina uxor ejus
Johannes Norman
Alicia uxor ejus
Willelmus Godfrey
Isabella Serjaunt -
Ricardus le Koo
Johannes Welham, junior
Thomas Horsecroft
Adam Sterme •
Johannes Pascale -
Johannes Ariforde -
Christina (?)Bretthinham
xvnjxviij viij viij x X
vi
viij iiijmj
viij x
xij
iiij ij
Summa hominum, xxviij
Summa denariorum, xxviijs
T180 Lay Subsidy"!
|_49 Suffolk J
Hundredum de Tynghowe
Villa de Saxham Magna
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
Rosschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex
altera parte Ricardum Andrew Willelmum Doraunt, Johannem
Mayster seniorem Willelmum Schot constabularies et subcollec
tores ejusdem subsidii ville de Saxham Magna ex tercia parte de
numero et nominibus subscriptis de gradu et statu eorundem.
APPENDIX I.

81

Laboratores
Ricardus Sannty -)
Amissia uxor ejus - "
Isabella Bradley -)
Ubelye filia ejus -j
Margeria Caunse'.er
Robertus Foul - -)
Mabylye uxor ejus -/
Johannes Mayster senior
Walterus Horold -)
Isabella uxor ejus - "
Ricardus Hermer -)
Margeria uxor e;-s - 1"
Rogerus ate Hawe -)
Rosa uxor ejus - 1'
Johannes Mavstt

Agneta uxor ejus -
Alicia Mayster -
Willelmus Doraunt
Margeria uxor ejus
Willelmus Schot
Johanna uxor ejus

junior!

-1

•V.

d.

ij

;j

xij-

*

xij
ij
ij
ij
j
ij
I
1}
1]
-J
SummaSumma
xij
Laboratores (cont.)
Ricardus Andrew
Alicia uxor ejus
Artifices
Willelmus Page, webstere
Robertus Clerk, taylor
Robertus Cokedon, oroir-1
stcre - \
Alicia uxor ejus - -j
Walterus Merel, taylor
Servientes
Ricardus Deye -
Willelmus Hermer
Ricardus Caunseler
Willelmus Adam
Ricardus Chestey -1
Agneta uxor ejus - - '
Walterus in the lane
Nicholaus Schepperde
Isabella Kyppyng -
Johannes Andrw
d.
xijxij
xij
xijxij
XljXlj
XIJ xij
xij xij
nommum, xxxvnj
denariorum, xxxviijs.
ri80 Lay Subsidy"]
|_49 Suffolk J
hundredum de tynghow
Villa de Saxham Parva
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrarotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum Rossehebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex altera parte Johannem ate Hawe Willelmum Hethe
Johannem Lawney Henricum Julie constabularies et subcollec
tores ejusdem subsidii ville de Saxham parva ex tercia parte de
numero et nominibus subscriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem.
| d. || Argrecole (cont.)
' ' Henricus Julie
: j Margeria uxor ejus
I 'iWillelmU9 de Hethe -
! ;i Margeria uxor ejus
ij Galfridus Warde
ij Agneta uxor ejus -
1 1 Johannes ate Hel
i ! Alicia uxor ejus
j Johannes Norman
I, Liticia uxor ejus - .
Armigeri
Johannes de Hethe
-)
s.
Amissia uxor ejus
Rogerus Hethe
Johanna uxor ejus
-/ -1
-J
VJ
iij
Argrecole
Johannes atte Hawe-
Meliora uxor ejus
Johannes Lawney
Agneta uxor ejus - •
-1-)"
-I¦i
ij
ij
s.
-I-J
ij
-1-J"
ij
-I
ij
¦)
ij
•i
ij
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Artifices

s.

d.

Servientes (cont.)

s.

Johannes Smyth, smyth )

Ricardus Slawtere

Margeria uxor ejus -
¦j
ij
Johannes Cartere -
Henricus Wryth j
Willelmus atte I wrytl
Hawe j
xij
Thomas Hethe
Vs
Johannes Shepperde -
xij
Margeria Ricard
Willelmus Port, tacher
Xlj
Claryssia Peytevyn
Ricardus Berd
xvj
Johannes Barwe
Johannes Danyel -
Servientes
Gilbertus Howard -)
ij
Ricardus Coupere
vj
Alicia uxor ejus -J
Robertus ate Hawe
-)
Henricus Peytevyn -)
Agneta uxor ejus -
-I
ij
Amissia uxor ejus -J
Stephanus Fryote
-)
Margeria ate Hel - - -
Mabilia uxor ejus
-J"
ij
Beatrix filia Margerie Hel
Lenota Norman
xij
Johannes Holdernesse ¦)
Johannes filiu3 ejusdem J
ij
Edmundus Knyth
xij
Stephanus Calfawe
xij
Johannes Slade -)
ij
Robertus Navys
iiij
Caterina uxor ejus -j
Oliva Spenser -
mj
Johannes Osbern -)
ij
Sarra Schepperde -
iiij
Stephanus Donewych
vj
Summa Nominum, lvij
Su
mma
dena
riorum, lvijs.
d. iiij vj x
xij
xij xij
Xljxij
XIJ
xij Xlj Xlj
XIJ
C180 Lay Subsidy-]
49 Suffolk J
Hundredum de Thynghow
VlLLATA DE RySBY
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Tendringe
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra rotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum de Rosschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex altera parte et Simonem de Heryngwelle Jacobum
Page constabularies et Johannem le Verdonn Simonem le Smyth
Johannem Haukyn de Thodynham et Simonem Heryngewelle ex
tercia parte de numero et nominibus subscriptis de gradu et statu
eorundem.
Servientes
s.
d.
Servientes (cont.)
s.
d.
Jacobus Page -
xij
Edmundus Bunnynge
xij
Mariota uxor ejus
xij
Thomas Julie -
xij
Alicia Bullok - - -
xij
Johannes Verdon -
xij
Johannes Heyward
xij
Alicia uxor ejus
xij
Caterina uxor ejus
Xlj
Johannes Hopton -
ix
Isabella Meller
xviij
Alicia uxor ejus
ix
Simon Heryngewelle
xviij
Johannes Hanlyn
xij
Clare uxor ejus
xviij
Beatrix uxor ejus
Xlj
Robertus Christemasse
xviij
Anna lo Meller
xij
Loveday uxor ejus
xviij
Johannes Bunynge
xij
APPENDIX I.

83

Servientes (ant.)
Beatrix uxor ejus
Johannes Meller
Isabella atte Greue
Alicia atte Grene -
Johannes atte Grece
Thomas Haukvn
Willelmus Wa'lc-ari
Alicia uxor ejus
Alicia atte Hack;
Agneta atte Hac:.-;
Johannes Clere
Margareta uxor ejus -
Isabella de Wode -
Simon le Smyth
Juliana uxor ejus
Willelmus Okele
Rosia uxor ejus
Nicholaus de Woue
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Acke

d.

1 Servientes (cont.)

s.

d.

xij

j Agnes uxor ejus

xij

vj
! Johannes Blek - -
vj
xij
• Margareta uxor ejus -
vj
xij
: Walterus atte Dale
xij
vj
i Mariota uxor ejus
xij
Xlj vj
Edmundus Taylor
xij
vj
xij
Laboratores
xij
Walterus Belamy -
xij
ix
j Alicia uxor ejus
xij
ix
Johannes Sumper
ij
xij
Margareta uxor ejus -
ij
sij
. Ricardus Herist junior -
xij
X
Johannes Verdon junior
xij
sij
Ricardus Yongwone junior
xij
*ij
Johannes Webster -
xij
xij
Edmundus atte Hache
xij
xij
Henricus Bullok
vj
Xlj
Agneta uxor ejus -
vj
Summa Summa
personarum, lvij
denariorum, lvijs.
rl80 Lay Subsidj
L49
Suffolk
7]
Villa de Westle
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendringe
chivaler & socio; suos contra irrotulatores ultimi subsidii domino
Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laiea tres grotas anno
regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum Ruschbrok
chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex altera parte et
Thomam Thunnood Thomam Gyle Edmundum Amy constabu
laries et subcollectores ejusdem subsidii de villa de Westle ex
tercia parte de r.umero et nominibus.
Agricole
s.
d.
Thomas Thurmocd
Margeria uxor ejus
Thomas Gyle -
Isabella uxor ejus
Robertus Welyngham
Margeria uxor ejus
-1 ¦)
-)¦i-1-J
ijijij
Artifices
Johannes Lamber. car- )
'
penter -
Johanna uxor ejus
Ricardus Dye, wezstere
Matildis uxor ejus
-J-1
ijij
Laboratory
Matildis Mur.vell
Mariota Welingham
xij
*ij
Laboratores (cont.)
Edmundus Amy -
Christiana uxor ejus
Seman de Cavenham
Alicia uxor ejus -
Johannes Bouneud
Alicia uxor ejus
Willelmus Bonde -
Matildis uxor ejus
Servientes
Nicholaus Shepherd -
Isabella uxor ejus
Thomas Buntyfeld
Johanna uxor ejus
Ch . . . Julie -
Beatrix uxor ejus
3.
-1-J
ij
- 1
-J"
ij
:}
ij
-l -J
ij
:)
ij
:}
ij
:)
ij
d.
6—2
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Servientes (cont.)
Walterus Thurmood
Mar  uxor ejus
Henricus Cavenham -
Alicia uxor ejus
E'lmundus Welyngham -

s.

d.

Servientes (cont.)

s.

d.

-1-i

ij

Johannes Deth
Thomas S . . . nde

-1

ij ij .

xij

-)

ij

xij

Alicia uxor ejus
Ricardus Smyht
Agneta uxor ejus -

-1 -1-J

Summa nominum, xxxvi
Summa
, xxxvis.
["ISO Lay Subsidy-]
L 52 Suffolk J
Hundredum de Thynghowe
Villa de Whepsted
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laica
tres grotas anno regni regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum Rosschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti
subsidii ex parte altera et Ricardum Fayrchild Johannem Lam-
berd Walterum Cage et Robertum Pylgrey constabularies et
subcollectores ejusdem subsidii de villa predicta ex tercia parte
de numero et nominibus subscriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem
videlicet.
Artifices
Johannes Fleg, carpenter)
Alicia uxor ejus -j
Johannes Boydyn, car-)
penter - - -j
Willelmus Deye, carpen-)
ter  -
Amy uxor ejus - -J
Johannes at hel, taylor-)
Matildis uxor ejus -J
Willelmus Norman - 1
Matildis uxor ejus -j
Laboratores
Simon Raph
Johanna uxor ejus
Walterus Mundeford-
Beatrix uxor ejus -
Willelmus atte Moor
Alicia uxor ejus
Rogerus Donyton -
Alicia uxor ejus -
Christiana Dolyngham -')
Johannes filius ejus -
Ricardus Taylor -
Johanna uxor ejus
s.
d.
ij
vj
xij
ij
vj
ij
vj
ij
ij
vj
ij
vj
ij
vj
ij
ij
vj
ij
Laboratores (cont.)
Galfridus Neith
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Brend
Elen uxor ejus
Johannes Pye
Christiana uxor ejus
Johannes Cage
Rosa uxor ejus
Petrus de Toune -
Olive uxor ejus
Alicia Cage - - -
Radulfus Menewod
Ricardus Fayrchilde -
Marion uxor ejus -
Johannes Lamberd
Willelmus Cage
Agneta uxor ejus -
Robertus Pylgrey -
Alicia uxor ejus
Servientes
Johannes Bulbrok
Alicia uxor ejus
Willelmus Smyth -
Christiana uxor ejus
s.
¦ )
-)
ij
-1-J
ij
-) -)
ij
ij
-)¦J"
ii
-1
ij
:}
ij
-)
¦i
ij
'¦}
ij
'¦}
d.
vj
vj
xviij xij vj
xij vj
XIJ
APPENDIX I.

85

Servientes ( .-ant.)
Johannes Whytman -
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Tofeld
Isabella uxor ejus
Benedictus Meuewod
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Gyle -
Johanna uxor ejus
Willelmus Bulbrok
Beatrix uxor ejus -

' d.
, xviij

j vnj
i xviij
! viij

Servientes (cont.)
Edmundus Meller
Johannes Cage, junior
Johannes Parys
Isabella uxor ejus
Rogerus Brythren
Agneta uxor ejus -
Margeria Menewod
Rogerus Wattys ...

d.iiijiiij

vnj iiij

riSO Lay Subsidy-]
L.38 Suffolk "J
VlLLATA DE MlLDENHALE IN 1IUNDREDO DE LACFORD
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laica
tres grotes anno regni ejusdem iiii'° ex una parte et Willelmum
de Russhebrok et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex altera
parte et Henricum Purs Henricum Chapman Thomam Clerk
Robertum Dyke et Willelmum Greyne constabularies et sub
collectores ejusdem subsidii ex tercia parte de numero et nomini
bus subscriptis et de statu et gradu eorundem videlicet.

Agricole
Willelmus Sopere -)
Agneta uxor ejus - -J
Dionis E res well -
Johannes Kelfynch -)
Isabella uxor ejus -j
Henricus Chapman senior I
Emma uxor ejus - -J
Katerina Walcham
Henricus Chapman junior)
Johanna uxor ejus -j
Simon Childreston
Simon Childreston junior I
Margeria uxor ejus
Rogerus Childresion -
Beatrix uxor ejus-
Robertus le Reve -
Alicia uxor ejus
Willelmus Greyne
Emma uxor ejus
Johannes Everard
Agneta uxor ejus -
Robertus Dyk -
Isabella uxor ejus
Robertus Claver
Alicia uxor ejus

s.

d.

ij

vj

xviij

ij

ij

vj

ij

ij

vj

sij
ij
¦ 1
vj
ij
ij
ij
ij
vj
ij
!j
vj
Brasiatores
Johannes Gilbonn
Margeria uxor ejus
Willelmus Neb
Katerina uxor ejus
Thomas Clerk -
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Lanwade
Katerina uxor ejus -
Robertus Revenhal
Elena uxor ejus
Thomas Wylde -
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Rande - -
Elizabetha uxor ejus
Pannarii
Nicholaus Partrich
Dionis uxor ejus
Henricus Purs - -
Margareta uxor ejus -
Petrus Berton -
Margeria uxor ejus
Artifices
Thomas Barker
Matildis uxor ejus
vj
vj
XVIIJ
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SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 13S1.

Artifices (cont.)

s.

d.

Robertus Gennote - - 1

Matildis uxor ejus - j

ij

Johannes Webstere - 1

Margeria uxor ejus -j
ij
Thomas Eton - - 1
Margareta uxor ejus- -j
ij
Johannes Barbour
xij
Johannes Gilbonn junior)
Johanna uxor ejus -j
ij
Henricus Taillor - 1
xviij
Margeria uxor ejus -j
Walterus Bocher -1
Isabella uxor ejus -j
xviij
Willelmus Coupere
xij
Johannes Skarlet - -)
Margeria uxor ejus -)
2J
Johannes Smyth
xviij
Rogerus Castel -)
Margeria uxor ejus -/
ij
vj
Thomas Fenhowe - - 1
Alicia uxor ejus - -j
ij
Radulfus Baxtere -
X
Johannes Page -)
Margeria uxor ejus -j
ij
Rogerus Rondham
xij
Adam Cote - - -)
Isabella uxor ejus -j
ij
Petrus Messager
ij
Robertus Soutere - -I
Alicia uxor ejus - - j
ij
Willelmus Mustardar - 1
Margeria uxor ejus -j
ij
Robertus Smyth - 1
Anna uxor ejus -j
ij
Johannes Lister - )
Johanna uxor ejus -j
ij
Johannes Mannyng - 1
Alicia uxor ejus - -)
ij
Simon Baxtere - 1
..
Margeria uxor ejus -j"
ij
Edmundus Elvedon - 1
Alicia uxor ejus -/
ij
Johannes Webestere - - )
Isabella uxor ejus -j'
ij
Henricus Sadiller - - 1
Margeria uxor ejus - j
ij
Thomas Fullere - 1
Kateriua uxor ejus -j
ij
Robertus Waryn -)
Beatrix uxor ejus - - )
'j
Thomas Loksmyth - 1
xij
Johanna uxor ejus -j
Willelmus Baxtere - 1
Katerina uxor ejus -/
ij
Simon Penne - - - 1
Agneta uxor ejus - -/
ij
Simon Gregory - -)
Isabella uxor ejus -)'
ij
Johannes Sly - - )
Beatrix uxor ejus -J
'j
Artifices (cont.)
Willelmus Cavenham -\
Margeria uxor ejus
Willelmus Sygo
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Sygo
Margeria uxor ejus
Robertus Sygo -
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Thorndon
Felis uxor ejus
Robertus Goche
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Sly
Margeria uxor ejus
Willelmus Sly -
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Symond
Margeria uxor ejus
Thomas Northern
Anna uxor ejus
Johannes Fraunceys-
Beatrix uxor ejus- -
Willelmus Cotton -
Alicia uxor ejus -
Thomas Symond
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Fremond
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Turnay-
Johanna uxor ejus
Willelmus Parmater -
Alicia uxor ejus
Ricardus Mulberye
Margareta uxor ejus -
Johannes Cotton
Alicia uxor ejus -J
Johannes Taillour
Johannes Calcher-
Johannes Skynuer
Willelmus Taillor
Willelmus Webster
Johannes Taillour
Servientes
Petrus serviens W. Neb
Robertus serviens Johan-)
nis Smyth - -j
Cecilia Souter
Johannes serviens H.)
Purs - -f
Johannes serviens W. j
Sopere -J
Johannes Brownyng -
Margareta Ally - - -
Margeria soriens Johan-}
nis Childreston - -)
Henricus Petrisburg
Amabilia Brethenham -
Alicia Gundel • •
xviij
vj
vj
xijxij xij
vj
xijxij
iiij vj
vj
xij vj
iiijiiij iiij
APPENDIX I.

87

Servientes (cont.)
Emma Ally -
Robertus Kirkowe
Johannes Borel - -
Alicia serviens K. Wal-
cham
Petrus Hardy ¦ -
Margeria serviens W.
Benet • -
Ricardus Brid
Constancia Kytebote -
Etheldreda Elyman
Thomas Cote
Katerina Soutere
Johannes serviens H.
Purs - - -
Robertus serviens J. Kel-
fynch
Margeria Succlyng
Margeria Hy ... - - -
Johannes filius Adami
Katerina Elmham
Katerina Cake -
Johannes Pykrel
Em. . . - -
Cecilia . . . Bullok
Johanna . . . yte
Johannes serviens T . . .
Thomas filius
Rogerus Sygo
Laboratores
Robertus Gilbert
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Hoot
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Cotton
Cecilia uxor ejus
Johannes Legt
Agneta uxor ejus -
Ricardus Odam
Margareta uxor ejus
Robertus Morle
Sarra uxor ejus
Radulfus Fouldon
Margeria uxor ejus
Willelmus Thacher
Willelmus Kent
Willelmus Fisher -
Johanna uxor eju3
Philippus Ged
Alicia uxor ejus
Etheldreda Wayte
Cecilia Cotton -
Robertus Langemere -
Johannes Redere
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Catelyn -
Johanna Skynner -
Thor 

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xviij xij xij
viij

Laboratores (cont.)
I Rogerus B . . . . rd
! Johannes Algood
[Loticia uxor ejus -
Johannes Bernard
Johannes Costyn
; Johannes Tollote -
Margeria uxor ejus
Ricardus Halstede
I Margeria Elveden -
i Agneta le Hyne -
! Willelmus Prat
I Margeria uxor ejus
Ricardus Gennote
Beatrix uxor ejus
Johannes Geunote
Johannes Lardy
Agneta uxor ejus - -
Johannes Ally
Petrus Coneynhton
Robertus Millere -
Willelmus Martyn
Thomas Miller
Ricardus Bambonn
Johanna uxor ejus
Johanna Succlyng
Margeria filia ejus
Margeria Succlyng
Adam Chadenhalk
Beatrix uxor ejus
Johannes filius ejus -
Robertus filius ejus
Enota le Hyne
Willelmus le Hyne -
Beatrix uxor ejus
Johannes Childreston
Alicia uxor ejus
Reginaldus Tyd -
Cecilia uxor ejus
Willelmus Miller
Johannes Place
Katerina uxor ejus
Etheldreda Goldwyn -
Johannes Golwyn
Radulfus Thaccher
Isabella uxor ejus
Emma Elmham
Willelmus Hallested -
Ricardus de Berton
Willelmus Hamond
Agneta uxor ejus -
Adam Playford
Johanna uxor ejus
Robertus Holm
Agneta uxor ejus -
Serjiantes de payes
Radulfus de Waleham
Walterus Beneyt
Matildis uxor ejus -

•J
ij

d.
xviij

xij xijxij
xij XljXlj
xij vj
xij vj
xijxijXlj
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xij xij
viij
viij viij xij

vj

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SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Laboratores

B.

d.

Rogerus ....

xij

Willelmus ....

xij

Johannes Fenhow

xij

Johannes H . . . .

Gilbertus S . . . . ake
(?)
 - -1
xij
Willelmus Cake -
xij
Symon Tymeworth -)
Matildis uxor ejus -/
'J
Ricardus Felyrs - - 1
Agneta uxor ejus - -j
•j
Willelmus Wright
xij
Bertholomaus Tyby - )
Johanna uxor ejus -j
ij
Johannes Hallested -)
Anna uxor ejus -j
ij
Walterus Cole -
xij
Ricardus Cole - -
xij
Alexander Cole - -)
Agneta uxor ejus - - -/
ij
Johannes Costyn - - )
Matildis uxor ejus -|
ij
Ricardus Penne - 1
Alicia uxor ejus -j"
ij
Galfridus Penne - 1
Katerina uxor ejus -j
ij
Johannes Bullok
xij
Matildis Aunsel
xij
Julia le Swon
xiJ
Rogerus Man - 1
„;,-
Cecilia uxor ejus -j
Xlj
Alicia Grigory -
xij
Johannes Gregory
xij
Hamo Childreston - 1
..
Agneta uxor ejus - - - j
Xlj
Johannes filius S. Child-
viij
Edmundus frater ejus
viij
Johanna soror ejus
viij
Thomas Sly - - - 1
Agneta uxor ejus - -j
ij
Johannes Mildemau - 1
Margeria uxor ejus - j
ij
Johannes Dawes - 1
Johanna uxor ejus -j"
ij
Edmundus Dawes - - f
Agneta uxor ejus - - j
ij
Willelmus Symon - 1
Agneta uxor ejus- -j
'j
Johannes Swage -
xij
Petrus Mayner
ij
Walterus Wiyght - - 1
Margeria uxor ejus - /
ij
Willelmus Mariot - - 1
Alicia uxor ejus - - j
ij
Rogerus Rolf - - - \
Cecilia uxor ejus - -j
xviij
I
-J -1
- -J
Laboratores (cont.)
Henricus Morle - -
Isabella uxor ejus
j Henricus Harg . . .
Thomas Morle -
Agneta uxor ejus -
Galfridus Langmere -
Agneta uxor ejus - -
Willelmus Ratlesden-
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Penyman
Johannes Wylde
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Bemygham
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Berton -
Robertus Symond
Alicia Sly
Johannes Co . . . er
Matildis uxor ejus
Willelmus Thurston -
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Messager
Johanna uxor ejus
Robertus Hulet
Agneta uxor ejus -
Willelmus ....
Henricus ....
Robertus ....
Maria Hyne
Johannes Fisher
Johannes Ty . . .
Johannes Watton -
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Parmeter
Johanna Symond -
Johannes Beconn
Robertus Aleyn
Margeria Gardener
Etheldreda Algood
Alicia Skynnere -
Robertus Reymond
Simon Mekke
Thomas serviens
Mustarder
Margeria le Smyth
Willelmus Thresshere
Martinus Wylkok
Johanna serviens W. Sopere
Johanna Halstede
Johannes Tymworth - -
Beatrix Gundel
Alicia filia Rioardi Penne
Willelmus Pyteman
Alanus le Man
Thomas Pyteman - -
Emma serviens H. Chap
man
Thomas Attebregge
Thomas Mayner -
Johannes Bronewyn
d.
vnj
-I
W.
xij
xvuj
xviijxviij xij
xijxij
xijxij
iiij
sij
xij
xij XIJ
xij
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xijxij
xij*ijxijxij vj
xij
sij
mj Xlj
iiij Xlj vj
vj
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APPENDIX I.

89

Laboratory* (cont.)
Beatrix sercien-- .... der
Willelmus Hubert
Johannes Hert
Thomas Reche
Robertus filius R. Reve -
Robertus Marc-Land

xijxijxij
xijxijxij

I Laboratores (cont.)
. Willelmus . . . . sel
Thomas Sygo
S . . . Messager
I Thomas Thaccher
I Isabella Messager -
, Johannes Cook

xijxijxij xij
xij
xij

Summa, xixZi. xviiis.

180 Lay Subsidy-] Skin damaged

\ r
\\ L45 Suffol!

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Hundred of Stowe
Stowemarket

Indentura de subsidio ville de Stowemarket domino nostro
liicarclo Regi Anglie concesso anno regni sui quarto.

De
Radulpho Clement armi-
gero et Katerina uxore -
Amicia Houtot generosa
Artifice'
De. Roberto Frend pit-tore
cum Matilde "xore
Ricardo Eston. ^.rmario -
 S . . . ford sutore
cum Agneta uxore -
Roberto Wyng^e chin-
chere cum uxore Elena
Johanne Aubry cistorc
cum Katerina uxore
Stephano Sarle tinctore
cum Agneta uxore -
 questore
cum Johanna uxore
 cum
Johanna uxor^ -

Matilde uxore
 cum
Christiana uxcre
,  c 'rpenter
cum Johanna uxore
 mature
cum Johanna r.xore
 sutore
cum Margeria ixore
 cue cole maker
cum Margeria "sore

d. iiij
"ij
xviij
xviij
xviij

vj
vjvjvj
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De

Artifices (cont.)

VJ

. . . . (Sh)akerys sutore
.... Smyth et Katerina
uxore - - -
. . . . Mellere_/tec7j<>r cum
Margareta uxore
.... Furbesshor
 Agneta
uxore - -
 tice uxore -
 Johanna
uxore
 cum Christiana
uxore - -
 uxore
 Margareta
uxore - ¦
 cum Margareta

Margeria

uxore

 cum Issabella
uxore ¦ - -
 Smyth
 herf sutore
cum Mariota uxore
 bonn celarer-
 ery -
, . . . nardiston carpenter
cum Mariota uxore
. . . otele . . . cum Elena
uxore - -

d.

vj
vj
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xij
xviij

xvnj xij

xij
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: xij
; xij
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SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 13S1.

Artifices (cont.)
De  inchere cum
Alicia uxore -
 s b . . . maker cum
Johanna uxore -
 cum
Matilde uxore
 Alicia
uxore
 Margareta
uxore
Johanne Leg pellipario
cum Margareta uxore -
Willelmo Stanton cissore
cum Agneta uxore -
Johanne Hoo baskat-
maker cum Margeria
uxore et Cecilia matre
Dionisia Chaundeler
Edmundo Bethwold pis-
tore cam Katerina uxore
Katerina ~Sevebrasiatrice
cum Edmundo filio suo
Thoma Clerk cum Jo
hanna uxore -
Alicia Kent spinstere
Nicholao Partre coler-
maker cum Amicia
uxore - - -
Laurentio Spot carnifice
et Agneta uxore
Willelmo Keteryngham
carpenter 
Katerina Childirhous
Thoma Cook - - - -
Johanna Coldhacle
schereu-vman -
Rogero Frost chinchere
Johanne Flecher cum
Matilde uxore
Thoma Chese sutore cum
Basilia uxore - -
Willelmo (Wilde?)., elar
cum Mabilia uxore
Willelmo P . . . h habir-
dassher cum Johanna
uxore - -
 kyn hoxstere
Johanne Frie pistare
cum Johanna uxore
Johanne Dextere cum
Matilde uxore -
 Guntre spinster -
Elia Dranton brasiatore
cum Christiana uxore -
Johanne Randolf cissore
cum Mariota uxore
Johanne Tostokc molen-
dinario cum Isabella
uxore -

lit

d.

ij

vj

xviij

xviij

xviij

ij

ij
ij
"j
xij
ij
ij
xij
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vj
xij Xljxij
xijXlj
ij
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iij
xij
>j
xviij xij
1J
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'j
VJ
Artifices (cont.)
De Roberto Boyo et Johanne
tegula toribus cum uxor-
ibus Margeria et Kate
rina - - ¦' -
 Chalonner -
Roberto Potte cum Alicia
uxore ...
Johanne Clubbe tanna-
tore cum Margeria
uxore
Johanne Holterelyn co-
operator cum Alicia
uxore - -
Reginaldo Senker cum
Bassilia uxore
Johanne Wekys fuller
cum Matilde uxore -
Johanne Hoo (gleente?)
cum Katerina uxore
 Robeld 
 Langlyf p . . cum
Christiana uxore
 kyn - - -
 cum Alicia
uxore - -
 Johanna
uxore - -
Willelmo Barbour cum
Johanna uxore -
Johanne Robeld carpen
ter cum Matilde uxore
Petro Byl fouller et
Margeria uxore - -
Laboratores
De Simone Skulton labora
torc cum Johanna
uxore - - -
Johanne Reed laboratore
Johanne Tluinbe labora
tore cum Alicia uxore -
Rogero Badele laboratore
cum Alicia uxore
Roberto Carter labora
tore -
Willelmo Leg laboratore
cum Juliana uxore
Servientes
De Roberto et Margareta ser-
vientibus Stephani Sarle
Katerina serviente Ro-
berti Sarle - -
Roberto serviente Johan
nis Hervy - -
Johanne serviente Wil
lelmi Dey - - •
mj ij
xij
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iij
xviijxviijxviij ij
xij Vj
xij
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IJijij
xij
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? xij
APPENDIX I.

91

De

Servientes (cont.)

Johanne serviente Jo
hannis Schakeris - -
Johanna serviente Gil-
berti Smyth - -
Johanna serviente Thome
Meller
Willelmo et Thoma tervi-
entibus Willelmi Crane
Johanne et Stephano
servientibus Willelmi
Sparwe
Roberto serviente Roberti
Smyth - - - -
Johanne servi-.nte Wil
lelmi Manser
Johanne serviente Jo
hannis Coo
Johanne, Egidio, et
Katerina servientibus
Katerine Neve
Johanne, Johanne, Tho
ma et Margareta servi
entibus Roberti Frend-
Agneta serviente Lauren-
tio Spot

s.

d. .1

xij

vj

vj

xij
xij
vj
xij
vj
ij
iij
vj
Servientes (cont.)
De Isabella serviente Nich-
olai Partre
Christiana serviente
Amicie Houtot - -
MargaretaserpiViile Kate
rine Childrous
Edmundo serviente
Thome Chese - -
Johanne serviente Wil
lelmi Wilde -
Alicia serviente Johan
nis Tostoke
Margeria serviente Jo
hannis Hoo
Katerina et Johanna
servientibus Willelmi
Langlyf
Isabella Brastrete
Amabilia Ferour -
Eleseo, et Matilde, ser
vientibus Radulphi Cle
ment - - -
Willelmo, Bertholomao,
et Johanne servientibus
Rieardi de Eston
Summa personarum ccij
Summa denariorum xii. ijs.
/ Willelmus Crane )
„ ,, , ! Johannes de Hoo \ quia onerantur superius.
Collectores willelmus Langlyf j
( Robertus Frend
T180 Lay Subsidy-]
L35 Suffolk J
Fynbergh Magna
! d-
xij
xijxij
xij
xij vj
iiij
xij vjvj
XIJxij
Indentura ejusdem ville de subsidio domino Ricardo Regi
nostro concesso anno regni sui quarto.
Agricole
s.
d.
Agricole (cont.)
1 s. ; <l
Johannes Sorell
ij
Johanna uxor ejus -
; iiij
Johanna uxor ejus
xij Rogerus Cordde - - -
XX
Agneta Cakestrete
xij Alicia uxor ejus
! xij
Augustinns Jour
xviij Nicholaus Wode -
'xviij
Mariota uxor ejus
vj Alicia uxor ejus
¦' Ti
Johannes Lenegor
xvj ! Thomas ate Fen
i xvj
Johanna uxor ejus
viij : Alicia uxor ejus
I vuj
Robertus Bedoun -
xij j' Katerina Neue - - -
xij
Alicia uxor ejus
xij 1 Petrns Wetherden
xij
Johannes Thedham
xviij Johannes Plant
I vj
Margareta uxor ejus -
vj
Roys uxor ejus - -
1 xviij
Johannes Scherwynd
XX
92

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Panerni'ikers
Johannes Rome
Elizia uxor ejus - -
Stephanus Truton
Dionisia uxor ejus
Johannes Coker
Margeria uxor ejus
Textatores
Nicholaus Cros - -
Emma uxor ejus -
Nicholaus Pirie - -
Alicia uxor ejus
Cissores
Robertus Edward senior
Alicia uxor ejus
Robertus Edward junior
Philyppa uxor ejus - -
Fabri
Henricus Smyth - -
Agneta uxor ejus -
Robertus Hakoun- - -

i

:-|l

Colectores

' XIJ
I xij vj
xviij
! xlj
i xij

IX
xijxij

XVJ
viij
xiiij x

xij xij
Xlj

Laboratores
Thomas Stalpy
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Neue
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Senlowes
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Aylemer
Margeria uxor ejus -
Johannes Blechepayl

Servientes
Ricardus Lenegor-
Agneta uxor ejus -
Robertus Seygge
Robertus Gentil
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Grene
Robertus Ossebern
Nicholaus Edward
Summa lvijs (erased E. P.)

Rogerus Cordde
Johannes Rome
1 Nicholaus Wode
( Thomas Ate Fen
Summa persouarum lxi
Summa denariorum lxis.

d. xx
iiij
xvj
viij xijxij
xvj
viij vj

x X
viij xij xij x

("180 Lay Subsidy"]
L"4"2 Suffolk J BUXHALE
Indentura de Subsidio Ville de Buxhale Domino nostro Ricardo
Regi Anglie concesso anno regni sui quarto.

Agricole (cont.)
De Nicholao Foot
Roys uxore ejus
Rogero Smyth -
Claricia uxore ejus
Ricardo Husk- - -
Margeria uxore ejus
Rogero Copinger
Alicia uxore ejus
Edmundo Langemere
Johanna uxore ejus-
Willelmo Spetyhnan
Deonisia uxore ejus-
Johanne Cobbe -
Matilde uxore ejus

Armigeri

s.

d.

De

Adam Cokerel -)

Cecilia uxore ejus -J
vj
viij
Johanne Rouly - -)
Margeria uxore ejus -)'
vj
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Anricole
De
Semano Breton - -)
Agneta uxore ejus -j"
iij
Ricardo Thunnood - 1
Alicia uxore ejus - 1
ij
Willelmo Hare - -)
Johanna uxore ejus- -\
XXX
5.
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APPENDIX I.

93

Agricole (cont.)

s.
d. '
Pelliparii \
s.
d.
De
De
Edmundo Canon -
-)
ij
i
Thoma Fancebroun - - 1
xviij
Amicia uxore ejus
-)
'
Alicia uxore ejus -i
Rogero Saltere
-)
ij
Margareta uxore ejus
-J
Laborarii
Cecilia Fancebroun
xij
De
Johanne Spryng -
Amabila uxore ejus -
-) -)'
ij
Ricardo Skeyman -1
Johanna uxore ejus- -J
Roberto Folke- - -)
ij
Egidio Skut
-}
ij
Margareta uxore ejus
Johanna uxore ejus - - 1
XV11J
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j Roberto Kent
xij
-J
j> Johanne Langemere- -)
Roberto Heyham- -
"I
ij
j Alicia uxore ejus- -j
xviij
Alicia uxore ejus-
-)
I1 Willelmo Coupere -t
xij i; Emma uxore ejus - - 1
Roberto Joye -
-)
xviij
Alicia uxore ejus-
-)
.. j; Johanne ate Hel seniorei
Matilde Chaunteler -
"¦^ i| Katerina uxore ejus- -j
ij
j
Johanne ate Hel juniore I
ij
Sarra uxore ejus- -i
Carnifices
Johanne Baroun - - 1
ij
De
Ositha uxore ejus - -j
xij
Johanne Pye - -)
ij
-1
Alicia uxore ejus -j"
Clemence uxore ejus
-J
A
Johanne Clerk - -1
ij
Beatrice uxore ejus - -j
Willelmo Legat - -
xij
Carpentarii
De
Johanne Mesham - -1
Agneta uxore ejus -j
ij
Galfrido Smalbon
Alicia uxore ejus- -
Simone Fraul- -
Cecilia uxore ejus
•1-J -1
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Alicia uxore ejus -j
Amia uxore ejus -
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Johanne Spetylman -
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Johanne Neel - - -
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Roberto Cokerel
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Johanne Mylys -
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Reginaldo Pach(at)
Johanne Resshebrok
vj
Roys uxore ejus
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Agneta Costard -
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Margeria Abot
Roberto Cartere -)
Inet uxore ejus - -j
vj
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Fabri
Thoma Harre - - - -
viij
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Johanne Smyth
Mariota uxore ejus
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Robeito Schepperde- -1
Elena uxore ejus -j
xvj
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Senientes (cont.)
De Johanna Canouu-
Willelmo Payn ¦
Johanne Lemmer
Agneta uxore ejus -

Collectores

d. vj
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xviij

Senientes (cont.)
De Roberto Bardolf
Johanne Pachat - -
Johanna uxore ejus-

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' Johannes Cobbe
Rogerus Saltere
Edmundus Canoun
Galfridus Smalbon

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Hec indentura tripartita est facta inter Willelmum de Ten
dryng chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrarotulatores
ultimi subsidii domini Regis nunc concessi videlicet de qualibet
persona laica tres grosses anno regni predicti Regis iiiit0 ex una
parte et Willelmum de Reshebrok chivaler et socios suos collec
tores ejusdem subsidii ex altera parte et Johannem Caketon et
Johannem Pyn subconestabularios et subcollectores ejusdem
subsidii villate de Westcretyng ex tercia parte de numero et no
minibus subscriptis ac de statu et gradu eorundem.

Agricole
Johannes Mounpeler
Johanna uxor ejus
 de Cretyng
 uxor ejus
(i names gone)
Johannes Stede
Agneta uxor ejus-
Edwardus Reynold
Isabella uxor ejus
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Johannes Pyn
Agneta uxor ejus -
(3 names gone)
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Johannes Tyler
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Thomas Moor -
Johannes Moor
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Katerina Shepherde spin-
mere - - - -
Margareta Strotel spin-
nerc - - -
Christiana Stede spinnere
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Rosea Hosbond - -
Johannes Shitte junior -
Willelmus Baday - -)
Alicia uxor ejus - - -J
Katerina Clerk spinnere -
Elizabetha filia Marga-
rete Cretyng spinnere -
Willelmus Katerinesson •
Margareta Stede spynncrc
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Johannes de Brecete -
Alicia de Brecete -
[Agricole ?]
Ricardus de Brecete -
Margeria de Brecete -
Johannes Cokerel
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Marl ...
Matilda uxor ejus
Johannes Coupere
Margeria uxor ejus
Galfridus Coupere
Jonhott uxor ejus
Rogerus Apilthweit
Johanna uxor ejus
Robertus Adgor
Margeria uxor ejus
Henricus Bouel
Cristina uxor ejus -
W. . . . Caperoun - -
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Margeria uxor ejus
Ricardus Hotot
Isabella uxor ejus
Henricus Coupere
Isabella uxor ejus
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Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Arnold
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Robertus Stoke fuller
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Johannes Blake fuller
Thomas Apelthw'eith -
Johannes Gurnay sutor -)
Margeria uxor ejus -j"
Ricardus Geffrey sutor -
Johannes Gyste
Johannes Reve peliparius)
Agneta uxor ejus- -j"
Petrus Cuttyng fleicer - )
Ismania uxor ejus -j
Thomas Brown piscator - )
Alicia uxor ejus - -j"
Johannes Dunken faber -
Margareta Cuttyng
Galfridus Smyth faber
Radulfus Capons -
Johannes Taillor - -
Martinus fiz Martyni
Servientes
Johannes Plat -
Thomas Masselyn
Johannes Payn
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Edwardus Mellere -)
Alicia uxor ejus - - -j
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Hec est indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laica
tres grotes anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
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Rosshebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex
altera parte et Johannem Westbroun et Willelmum Banyngham
constabularies et Johannem Bonde Johannem Bole Robertum
Cokerel et Walterum Bereiweie subcollectores ville de Wetherden
ex tercia parte videlicet de numero et nominibus subseriptis et
de eradu et statu.

Rogerus Schales armiger)
Denisia uxor ejus -J
Johanna Motonn agri-
cola
Johannes Motonn -)
Alicia uxor ejus - -J
Johannes Moton senior -
Johanna Fermer u-ebber)
Johanna filia sua- - -j"
Johannes Browster cissor)
Gundre uxor ejus- ¦ -/
Robertus Hessete tritu
rator
Margeria uxor ejus
Tomas Neele laborator
Johanna Bauleie
Ade Schepperde pastor -\
Johanna uxor ejus - -J
Robertus Lerling faber ¦ )
Alicia uxor ejus - -j
Alicia Banleie webber - \
Angneta felia sua- -J
Willelmus Bauleie sa-
crista ¦
Johannes Lane agricola -)
Alicia uxor ejus - -f
Walterus Bereiweie agri-
cola - -
Alicia uxor ejus - -
Johannes Thelich labor
ator - - - -
Rogerus Wodecok
Petrus Sudbery triturator
Hur Wangeforthe tritu
rator
Alicia uxor ejus -
Johannes Wodecok
Hisabella Wodecok
Raf Manser -
Johannes Sudberi - -
Johannes Westbron agri-
cola - - - -
Alicia Westbroun -
Johannes Westbroun
agricola
Helisabeth uxor ejus
Johannes Bole -
Necolaa uxor ejus -j

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Johannes Densi carucator)
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Johannes Densi pastor
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Robertus Weneis agricola)
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Robertus Hoo agricola -)
Hesabel uxor ejus -j"
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Johannes Hoo coopertor
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Galfridus Netherstrete -
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Hissabel Ros
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Masselie Toke
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Caterina Boldiro
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Hissabel Counte
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Alicia Fraw ....
iiij
Johannes Walsham
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Robertus Multon -
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Margareta Brewster
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Johannes Grene laborator)
Willelmus filius ejus -j
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Willelmus Wergowns
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Robertus Cokerel agricola)
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Johannis Bonde chinchere
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Johanna Bonde browster
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Johannes Cobold pastor
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Robertus Beri pedder -)
Johanna uxor ejus -J
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Caterina uxor ejus -J
Willelmus Bonde -
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Walterus Tipping cnnica-
tor
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Johannes Thresher
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Johauna Palmere -
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iiij
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iiij
Margerie Wode
iiij
Margeria Talihowr
iiij
Margareta (Ormer?)
iiij
Johannes Hassele-
iiij
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Agricole'
Willelmus de Neuton - 1
Johanna uxor ejns -j
Robertus atte Grene - - 1
Alicia uxor ejus - .j
Willelmus Cook - )
Juliana uxor ejus -j
Johannes de Sprouton - 1
Cecilia uxor ejus - -j
Johannes Brungor junior
Johannes Brungor ]
senior - - ,
Agneta uxor ejus- -J
Johannes atte Hyl -j
Margeria uxor ejus -j
Johannes Cook -1
Matildis uxor ejus -J

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Henricus Lacy carnifex )
Johanna uxor ejus - -j
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Johannes Cake -)
Johanna uxor ejus . -j'
Laurencins (. . . . ion '?) - \
Agneta uxor ejus- -)
Mariota Ky ...
Ricardus Kyng - -)
Margereta uxor ejus - -)
Agneta Barker -
Cristina atte Hyl - - -
Willelmus Dunken -)
Alicia uxor ejus -J
Semanus Ryche - -)
Matilldis uxor ejus - -J
Mabilla Gobelet
Matilldis Cook -
Johannes Manning
Ricardus Barker - - -)
Amicia uxor ejus - -}
Constabularii. Agricole
Galfridus Cook carnifex)
Alicia uxor ejus ¦ -}
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Summa denariorum xliijs.

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Adam Markys
Alicia uxor ejus
Robertus ate Brigge -
Mariota uxor ejus
Hawota Brigg -
Johannes Schene
Beatrix uxor ejus
Alicia Schene filia ejus
Margeria atte Brigge
(two names erased)
Robertus Waketon
Deonicia uxor ejus
Nicholaus de Hampton
Margareta uxor ejus

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Matildis uxor ejus - -
Robertus Hardhefd cissor
Servientes
Elena serviens Margerie
atte Brigg -
Henricus Newman servi
ens manerii
Johanna uxor ejus
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Servientes (cont.)
Galfridus Neuraan servi-)
ens manerii - - r
Ma:ild!s uxor ejus -)
Johannis Fermer
Johannes Hamound - -
Nicholaus Shepherde

d.

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Constabularii. Agricole
Johannes atte Lee
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Wryth -)
Katerina uxor ejus -j

Summa nominum xxviij
Summa denariorum xxviijs.

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de Corper constabularios ville de Shellond Harleston et Onhows
et Johannem Vaus eisdem constabulariis associatum Ricardo de
Pakynham et collectori et receptori subsidii predicti.

Johannes de Hegsete
Johannes Hamond
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes atte Fen
Ceei-ia uxor ejus -
Thoraas Tynton
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes Vaus
Rosea uxor ejus
Johannes Mundegome
Margeria uxor ejus
Johannes atte Hell
Agneta uxor ejus - -
Johannes Scot -
Maii-eria Broun
Willrlmus Tynton
Mariota Hamond - -
Robertus Cokeman
Marina nxor ejus -
Johannes de Halle
Margeria uxor ejus
Amicia de Halle - -
Johannes atte cros
Johanna uxor ejus
Willeimus Letyl -
Margareta uxor ejus -
Rogerus Benet - -
Johannes Cobbe
Amicia uxor ejus - -
Matildis Trrist
Margeria B . . . oun

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Johannes de Freton - -'
Matilldis uxor ejus
Rogerus Shaldrye
Margeria uxor ejus
Rogerus Cokeman
Margareta uxor ejus -
Johannes Alderyd
Johannes Lilye
Agatha uxor ejus -
Robertus Syre - -
Johanna uxor ejus
Robertus Mere - -
Margereta uxor ejus -
Johannes SI ... .
Agneta uxor ejus -
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Margeria uxor ejus -j
Onhows Hameletum
Rogerus Corper - -)
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Hevy - -
Margareta uxor ejus -
Lucia H . . . nt
Henrious - )
Matildis - -j
Agneta Al . . .
Robertus Hell  )
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Cultores
De Roberto Cokerel
Rosa uxore sua
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(3 names gone)
Johanne Talbot •
Mariota uxore sua
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Agneta uxore sua
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Edmundo Boure -
Margeria uxore sua - ¦
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. . . et uxore sua
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Willelmo Frend - ¦
Johanna uxore sua - ¦
Alicia Mot - -
Johanne Wynge
Agneta uxore sua - •
Johanne Bellons -
Sara uxore sua - ¦
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Thoma Tumor
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Isabella uxore sua
Willelmo filio suo
Johanne famulo
Roberto Dalkys
Johanne Smyth
Margareta uxore sua
Johanne famulo
Adam Dalkys -
Willelmo Martyn
Johanne Chene
Johanna uxore sua
Roberto Sorel -
Isabella uxore sua
Michaele filio suo
Thoma Gaysle
Rogero Soutere -
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Artificiarii (cont.)
De Thoma Snellyng -
Margareta uxore sua
Roberto Scliyth
Isabella uxore sua
Petro Stantone
Matilde uxore sua
Roberto Schyth
Margareta uxore sua
Adamo Gundre
Emma uxore sua
Johanne Hashard
Juliana uxore sua
Henrieo Raneld
Margereta uxore sua
Edmundo Raneld
Katerina uxore sua -
Steffano Cristemasse
Alicia uxore sua - -
Roberto W 
Willelmo 
Matilde uxore sua
Willelmo Kegyl
Isabella uxore sua
Adalyia Crane
Johanne Tryker
Margareta uxore sua
Johanne Glesne
Roberto Wente
Matilde uxore sua -
Willelmus Coldhakyl
Margareta uxore sua
Alano Coldhakyl - •
Johanna uxore sua
Johanne Bole -
Juliana uxore sua
Johanne Trot -
Margareta uxore sua
Roberto Barker
Agneta uxore sua
Ricardo Burs
Johanna uxore sua
Reginaldo Qwytyng -
Rosa uxore sua
Johanne Rome
Alicia uxore sua -
Johanne Mellere -
Cristiana uxore sua -
Johanne Tryker
Nioholao uxore sua ¦
Johanne Adgor
Isabella uxore sua
Radulfo Jery
Beatrice uxore sua
Johanne Prentys - -
Willelmo Gyrling
Johanne Malkyn - -
Margareta uxore sua
Johanne Doye
Cristiana uxore sua -

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Johanne Beste
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Elena Stanton
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Mariota uxor ejus -j
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Thomas Mey - -\
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Isabella uxor ejus -j
Johannes Bregge - 1
Katerina uxor ejus - j
Willelmus Gknnvill -
Thomas Cardoun - - 1
Alicia uxor ejus -)
Ricardus Gerard - )
Matilldis uxor ejus -j
Willelmus Proude
Johannes Carter -I
Matilldis uxor ejus -j
Servientes
Thomas Stonton serviens
Robt Hotost -
Ricardus Gerard serviens
eodem -
[Thorney1]
d.
XIJXlj
Xlj
XV11 V
Xlj
xij
Servientes (cont.)
Johannes Wlvard serviens
eodem - - . -
Matildis uxor ejus serviens
eodem - - . -
Johannes  serviens
eodem
 serviens eodem
 serviens eodem
An . . . le Ros serviens
eodem ....
Rogerus Schepherd ser
viens eodem -
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Melewey ser-''
viens Thome Goney -
Margareta uxor ejus- -
Johannes Nenman ser-'
viens eodem -
Alicia uxor ejus - - 1
Matildis Blower serviens
eodem - - -
Alicia atte Grene -
Petrus Keneld servient
Galfrido atte Grene
Johannes Whederyld
Margeria Whederyld -
Johanna Kyng-
Galfridus Manger servi
ens Johauni Sewale
Johannes atte Wode -
xij
vj
vj
vjvj
vj
vj
vj vj
vjvjvj
Xlj
1 The name of Thorney appears to be the right one after comparing this Poll
Tax list with -c Cotu-t Roll of Thorney of 20 Ric. II. Cf. Court Rolls, General
Series, Port. 204, No. 21. P. R. O.
102

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Servientes (cont.)
Johanna Fenkele
Johannes Fenkele
Nicholaus Kent
Willelmus Kent
Cecilia Hotot serviens
Ricardo Hotot
Mabillia Cake
Johannes Hamond
Ricardus Cook -
Margeria Colman -
Johannes Padenhale -
Alicia Shitte
Agneta serviens Rogero
Hoo
Johannes C . . . . -
Johannes Gunnild
Sabella Goldyng
Godefridus serviens Jo- )
harmi Moriel - \
Alicia uxor ejus -)
Robertus Mauger - -
Alicia Hamond serviens
Johauni Dawys -
Matilldis Cole •

d.

Servientes (cont.)

s.

d.

xij

Johannes Berche - -1

ij

xij

Custaneia uxor ejus -)

vj

Robertus Ode

; xij

vj

Ricardus Bol •

XIJ

Johannes Pe . . . - -

Xlj

vj

Walterus Aleyn

xij
xij
Ricardus Sawer
Johannes serviens
xij
vj
mafrcial?] atte Ford
xij
vj
Thomas Berwe
xij
xij
Johannes Cook serviens
vj
Roberti Hotot -
xij
Walterus Crinyte - -
xij
vj
Xlj
xij
Nicholaus Cake
xij
vj
Johanna Cake servient
vj
Petri atte Kent-
xij
Johannes . . .
xij
Johanna Cur ...
Xlj
Johannes Badynhale -
xij
xij
Matilldis Ode -
Xlj
Johanna Osbem
xij
vj
Walterus Carter
X'ij
vj
Johannes Leman -
xij
Summa personarum clxxix
Summa denariorum viij7i. xixs.
rlSO Lay Subsidy-]
L 48 Suffolk J
Hundredum de Blakeborn
Villa de Fakynham Magna
Hoc indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laica
tres grotas anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
Rosschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii. ex
altera parte et Willelmum Grenegres Galfridum Gerard Johan
nem Clement Galfridum Calf constabularios et subcollectores
ejusdem subsidii de villa predicta ex tercia parte de numero et
nominibus subseriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem videlicet.
Agricole
s.
d.
Artifices
j s.
d.
Willelmum Grenegres - 1
Thomas atte Grene car-''
1
Isabella uxor ejus -)'
iiij
pentarius
¦! ij
Galfridus Gerard - - )
Matildis uxor ejus
Alicia uxor ejus - -/
ij
Johannes Clement - )_
Katerina uxor ejus -)
ij
vj
Laboratores
Galfridus Calf- -)
Benedicfcus Rowe
xij
Agneta uxor ejus- -j
ij
Johannes Rowe
1
xij
APPENDIX I.

Laboratores (cont.)

s.

d.

Servientes

Ricardus Rowe

vj

Johannes Grenefeld

Willelmus Gerard -)

Juliana uxor ejus
Agneta uxor ejus - - j
ij
!i Emma Smyth
Emma Smyth -
xij
! Johannes Cres -
Edmundus Breton - [
[ Robertus Calf
Lucia uxor ejus -J
XVI ij
1 Agneta Cartere
Nicholaus Gerard -
ij
! Thomas Cakebred
Alicia Gerard
xij
1 Joh 
Summa
xxixs.
103
XVUJ xijXlj Xlj vj
vj
rl80 Lay Subsidy")
|_41 Suffolk J
Euston in Hundredo de Blakborne
Hec indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laica
tres grotes anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
Russhebrook et socios suos collectores ejusdem subsidii ex altera
parte et Petrum Baa Thomam Jade Petrum Pakkeman et Willel
mum atte Chirche constabularios et subcollectores ejusdem subsidii
in villa predicta ex tercia parte de numero et nominibus et de statu
et gradu eorundem videlicet.
Agricole
Willelmus atte Chirche
Alicia uxor ejus
Henricus Blauncpayn
Margareta uxor ejus -
Thomas Jade
Agneta uxor ejus -
Petrus le Baa
Katerina uxor ejus
Artifices
Walterus Leneve
Johannes Runtyng
Edmundus Rogger
Katerina uxor ejus
Johannes Lucas -
Johannes Droughte
Katerina uxor ejus
Walterus Barat
Alicia uxor ejus
Petrus Pakkeman -
Meter1
Johannes Jade-
Agneta uxor ejus -
s.
d.
-I
-J
ij
vj
-1 -J
V
iiij
- )
-)
ij
-)-i
ij
xviij xij
-)-)
ij
vj
xviij
-)-)"
XX
-)
ij
xij
:}
iij
Bercarii
Henricus Bonecold -)
Cristina uxor ejus - 1"
Petrus Knyth -
Robertus Wanton -
Johannes Cole -
Servientes
Margareta Aleyn
Walterus serviens Hen-
rici Blauncpayn
Alicia Baa - -
Agneta serviens Johannis
Jade
Johannes Jade junior
Walterus Jade - -\
Margeria uxor ejus -j
Johannes Deye - -
Johannes Jade senior
Johanna Wauton -
Laboratores
Walterus Boydon - -)
Alicia uxor ejus -j'
Johanna Lucas
d.
xviij xij
iiij vj
xij vj
vj
XX
xviij xij
inj
vj
i Possibly ' mecer ' ; a slip for ' mercer.'
104

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Laboratores (cont.)

! s.

d. |: Laboratores (cont.)

s.

d.

Johanna Barat
Petrus Lenedey
Alicia Leneve - -
Nicholaus Hascard

- 1
-)

xij | Alicia Pakkman
viij Galfridus Poyt-
viij i Petrus atte chirch
1 Alicia serviens H. Blauuc-

VUJ xij vj

Margeria uxor ejus
Matilldis Horn
Margeria Leneday
Willelmus Note
Margeria uxor ejus

i pa>m
xij i Margeria Knyt - -
iiij ; Matilldis atte Chirch
xviij

vj
i vj
¦¦ "ij
1

Summa

personarum liij

Summa denariorum liijs.

ri80 Lay Subsidy"]
L 47 Suffolk J
Gnattessal
 Willelmum de Tendryng
chivaler  assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi  concessi
videlicet de qualibet persona laica tres grotes anno regni ejusdem
quarto ex una parte Willelmum de Russhebrok et socios suos
 ex altera parte et Ricardum Baldry et Nicholaum Baldry
constabularios Johannem Baxtere Willelmum Coppyng Johannem
Betteson Johannem Ilbert subcollectores ville de Gnattessal ex
tercia parte de numero et nominibus subseriptis et de statu et
gradu eorundem videlicet.
Agricole j s.
Thomas de Stanton
Margeria uxor ejus -
Ricardus Baldry - - • ,
Christiana uxor eius-
Nicholaus Baldry - iij
Laborarii
Johannes Clytermere
Mess .... uxor ejus
Johannes Betteson -
Beatrix uxor ejus
Johannes Baxter pistor
Margareta uxor ejus -
Willelmus Coppyng webe
sler ....
Alicia uxor ejus
'Ricardus Taillor
Matildis uxor ejus
Willelmus Mabbesson
Roes uxor ejus
Petrus Rolle - -
:}:)II
d. I
ij
"j ijij
vj
mj
xviij xij
Willelmus Rook
Amya uxor ejus -
Johannes Mannyng
Johannes Shepherd
Matildis uxor ejus
Willelmus Turgy -
Alicia uxor ejus
Robertus Gernoun
! Denise uxor ejus
Ricardus Hunte
Agneta uxor ejus -
Margareta Slaug
Agneta God 
 ad  •
Isabella uxor ejus
Margareta Coppyng
Willelmus Rash
; Agneta uxor ejus -
Alicia uxor ejus
Cecilia 
Alicia Turgy
Johannes . . . hilbon
Alicia uxor ejus
d.
xij
liijXlj
1 The rest of the trade names are illegible.
APPENDIX I.

Servientes

. s. ' d.

Servientes (cont.)

Alicia Godard -

Baldry 

xij

Reginaldus Elfred
Alicia Hunte - - -

[Skin damaged]

Johannes Smyth -
Margareta uxor ejus-
Johannes serviens Nicho-
Christiana Soutere
lai Baldry
vj
Agneta Bettesen
iiij
1 Willelmus Wyse -
Johannes Judy
mj
Agneta Wyse
Johanna le Man
iiij
Johanne Shapestre
Summa hominum lxij
Summa denariorum lxijs.
10c
d. vj
viij iiij xij vj
mj vjvjvj
rl_80 Lay Subsidy-
L 47 Suffolk
Hynderkle
Hec est indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Ten
dryng chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores
ultimi subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona
laica tres grotas anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Wil
lelmum Rosshebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti sub
sidii ex altera parte et Henricum Folkmere et Johannem Basely
constabularios Robertum le Clerk Willelmum Setard Thomam
Schepherde Hugonem Benne subcollectores ejusdem subsidii ville
de Hynderkle ex tercia parte videlicet de numero et nominibus
subseriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem videlicet.
Adam Botonu agricola - 1 j
Matildis uxor ejus - -/
Willelmus Toly sutor -) !
Petronilla uxor ejus - - [ j
Alicia filia ejus -) j
Robertus Burgeys tritu-) I
rator - r i
Amya uxor ejus -J !
Johannes Burgeys -) I
Gundreda uxor ejus -j j
HenricusBoyboyoras-a tor)
Agneta uxor ejus - - !¦
Margeria filia eorundemj
Henricus Harling-
Adam, Deynissone webe-)
ster - - -
Isabella uxor ejus -j
Adam Donne webester -)
Margeria uxor ejus -}
Ricardus Goos agricola - 1
Johanna uxor ejus
Isabella filia eorundem -,
"J
Robertus Clerk agricola -
Katerina uxor ejus - -
Willelmus serviens dicti
Roberti
Willelmus Edward famu
lus carucator - -
Amya uxor ejus
Alicia Crane
Johannes filius suus - - j
Hugo Doke sutor -
Margeria uxor ejus - -
Margeria filia eorundem
Amya Schepherde spyn-
nere- - - -
Willelmus Bole triturator)
Katerina uxor ejus -/
il Alicia Hare spynnere
'! Johannes Basely taillor -\
| ; Alicia uxor ejus -J
h Johannes Hej'r junior'
cooperator
|j Margeria uxor ejus - -
mj "j
d.
xij
mj xij
ij
106

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Margeria Cokewald spyn-
ncr - - - -
Simon Wyhot famulus'
carucator - •
Matildis uxor ejus -
Radulfus Folkmere taillor)
Margeria uxor ejus -|
Isabella Arnold
Henricus Buntyng agri
cola- - -
Isabella uxor ejus - -
 fil . . eorundem ,
Margeria Reynald- - •
Henricus Folkmere taillor)
Mariota uxor ejus
Johannes filius suus - - )
Hugo Benne agricola -)
Alicia uxor ejus -J
Johannes Personnesman |
laborarius
Amya uxor ejus -j
Thomas Schepherde co-\ j
operator - - >
Katerina uxor ejus -j ;
Henricus Botonn agricola
 Botonn filius agri
cola -
Johanna Botonn uxor
ejus
Julianna Benne spynnere

mj

"J

uij

"J

mj

iij vj

Ricardus Redere redere -
Agneta uxor ejus - - -
Johannes Fuller fuller -
Christiana uxor ejus- -
Willelmus Setard bocher)
Alicia uxor ejus - - - '-
Thomas serviens dicti W.J
Tyllot Daye spynnere
Robertus Daye daye - - )
Margeria uxor ejus -j
Walterus Hillessone

Amya Cristemesse spyn
nere
Margeria serviens Roberti
Clerk
Alicia spynner -
Benedictus Rasol labor
ator
Agneta uxor ejus -
Willelmus Claver -
Margeria Coke .... -
Margeria serviens Willel
mi Setard
Johannes Schepherde ber-
carius
Alicia uxor ejus
Walterus Crane
Agneta uxor ejus -

xijxij
iiij
mj"ij

ill]iiij
mj
viij iiij iiij
iiij
viijviij

Summa personarum iiij vj
Summa iiij J/, vjs.

("180 Lay Subsidy-]
L.47 Suffolk J

Ixworth Thorp

Hec indentura est tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laica
tres grotes anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
Rosshebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex
altera parte et Galfridum Neve Willelmum  constabularios
Johannem Hog et Thomam Gandawys subcollectores ville de
Ixworth Thorp ex tercia parte de numero et nominibus subseriptis
et de gradu et statu eorundem.

.... Pakenham armiger)
.... uxor ejus - - j
Edmundus de Pakenham
agricola
Alicia uxor ejus -

d.

Nicholaus Wynyeve -)
Edonea uxor ejus- .- -j
Thomas Gandawys mer
sonarius
Agneta uxor ejus -

d.

xvj

APPENDIX I.

107

Galfridus .... ay pastor)
Cecilia uxor ejus - - -f
Galfridus  agricola )
Agneta uxor ejus- -/
Isabella Mason spynner -
Cecilia Langeton
Katerina Spencer spynner
Johannes Hog sere us -)
 uxor ejus - - - ,"
Willelmus Hog agricola)
 )"
 Smyth agricola -
Petrus Wynyeve textor -
Isabella .... spynner
Johannes Coupere -)
Alicia uxor ejus -/
Ricardus Ford pastor -)
Alicia uxor ejus - -/
Adam Maykyn triturator)
Katerina uxor ejus -j

>J
iij

d.

xij vj
xijxij

vnj xij
viij vj
xij

Henricus Saltebek archi-) \
tect- - -\
Rosa uxor ejus - )
Radulfus Otysdole pastor)
Edenea uxor ejus- .-"
Margareta Bette spynner ,
Willelmus Pucool cant-) ;
carius - - -
Isabella uxor ejus -J
Agneta Fede sutor -
Johannes Fishere labor-)
arius - -'r
Margareta uxor ejus- -J
Thomas Toffay pastor -)
Isabella uxor ejus - *-j
Johannes (D?)ale fuller -
Katerina . . . og serviens -

"ij

Summa personarum xtvj
Summa pecuniarum xlvjs.

p39 Lay Subsidy "1
Ll74 Divers CountiesJ

Langham

xij

vnj xvj

vnj vj

XVJ

Hec est indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi de qualibet persona laica tres grotes
anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum de Rossch-
brok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex altera parte
Willelmum Eldesen Albritnm Schypman constabularios Johannem
Wode Willelmum Balye Edmundum Sparwe et Johannem Rust
subcollectores dicti subsidii ex tercia parte ville de Langham vide
licet de numero et nominibus subseriptis et de gradu et statu
eorundem videlicet.

Willelmus de Langham
chivaler ¦
Johannes filius ejus -
Willelmus filius ejus-
Margareta serviens ejus -
Robertus serviens ejus
Thomas Warde famulus
ejus - - - -
Robertus famulus ejus
Robertus Jakelyn serviens
ejus - - -

d.

xij
xijxij xij
viij
viij iiij

Thomas Alconibury agri
cola 
Isabella Jakelyn spyn
ner - - -
Margareta Andrew ser
vient 
Thomas  Willelmi )
de Langham- -1-
Agneta uxor ejus - - -J
Johanna Raych serviens
Johannes Wymbyl jun ior

d.
xijxij
iiij
xvj
viij iiij

108

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Thomas atte Hagwe ugri
cola- ¦ -
Margeria uxor ejus
Nicholaus filius ejus- ¦
Amicia rilia ejus
Henricus Bras - - - )
Isabella uxor ejus - - )'
Johanna Forth spynner
Johannes Wroo bercarius )
Agneta uxor ejus zvebsterej
Margeria filia ejus web-
stere ...
Thomas serviens J. Wroo
Beatrice serviens dicti
Johannis - - -
Alicia Cook spynner - -
Robertus Snowyth tritu-
rator  •
Matildis uxor ejus
Henricus Snowyth cissor)
Johauna uxor ejus -[
Johannes Raych carpen-)
tarius - -[
Johanna uxor ejus -)
Rosa Wymbil - - -\
Bartholomaus filius ejus
agricola 
Margareta filia dicte Rose ,'"
 serviens dicte
Rose ¦ •
Johannes Schepherde -)
Isabella uxor ejus - - )
Thomas atte Cherch)
serviens
Alicia uxor ejus -J
Mabilia Lambyn
Albritus Schypmau agri-)
cola  j-
Olyva uxor ejus -)
Agneta Skynner
Johanues Rust agricola-)
Matildis uxor ejus - - 1
Willelmus filius eorun- j
dem- - - -)
 Warde triturator -)
 uxor ejus - - -
 fil . . ejus - - -J

d.

'J
ijij
iiij ijij
iij
iij

xij

vj
viijviij xij

"J

xij
iiij
xvj

vj

 Rumbald famulus-
Adam le Rede laboratory
Alicia uxor ejus - )
Amya Lenote - 1
Emma filia ejus -j
Amicia Prentys - - 1
Agneta serviens ejus- -j
Willelmus Dygge corn- )
loder - ' ' \
Margeria uxor ejus -)
Sarra Ingold
Johannes Wode agricola)
Basilia uxor ejus -
Johannes serviens eorun
dem - -
| Ricardus Helle Webster
-Margareta uxor ejus- -J
; Willelmus Balye
Agneta uxor ejus - -
Isabella mater dicti Wil
lelmi - -
; Adam serviens dicti Wil
| lelmi ...
; Willelmus Eldesen corn-)
! loder
Johanna uxor ejus
Margareta filia ejus -
Edmundus Sparwe cissor
I Rosia uxor ejus
! Margeria filia eorum - -J
| Cecilia Meller spynner
[ Johaunes Keneman - )
Emma uxor ejus - - - j
Sabina serviens eorundem
Thomas Geg - 1
Katerina uxor ejus -j
Thomas Burgeys carpen-
tarius
Katerina uxor ejus - -
Alicia Helle -
Thomas Meller meller -)
Johanna uxor ejus -/
Johannes Scot carpten
tarius ...
Katerina uxor ejus

:f

s. d.
viij
ij
iij ij

"J

"J

uj

XVJ

XV1J

111J iij
xij
II xiij

xij XX

Summa personarum iiij x
Summa denariorum iiijii. xs.

APPENDIX I.

109

T180 Lay Subsidy-]
[_39 Suffolk

Stowelangetot

Hec est indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum de Ten
dryng chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores
ultimi subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona
laica tres grotes anno regis ejusdem quarto ex una parte et
Willelmum Rossbrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti sub
sidii ex altera parte et Willelmum Marchal et Johannem Crows
constabularies et Johannem Rogyn Johannem Tyller Johannem
Bere Eliam Wythlok subcollectores ejusdem subsidii ville de
Stowelangtot ex tercia parte de numero et nominibus subserip-
torum et de gradu et statu eorundem videlicet.

Robertus de Aisschfeld) :

armiger - -'-¦¦

XV

Margareta uxor ejus - - )

Johanna Wykes

ij

Katerina serviens dicte

Johanne - ...

viij

Aisschfeld
vj
Johannes Kenne serviens
dicti Roberti - - -
vj
Ade serviens dicti Roberti
vj
Johannes Cook serviens
dicti Roberti -
vj
Simon Baxster serviens
dicti Roberti -
vj
Henricus Bakorui serviens
dicti Roberti- - -
vj
Matildis servient dicti
Roberti - -
iiij
Katerina serviens dicti
Roberti - -
iiij
Willelmus Bryd .-e.-viens
dicti Roberti -
iiij
Johannes Carter serviens
dicti Roberti -
iiij
Robertus Man serviens
dicti Roberti- - -
iiij
Roberti- - - -
iiij
Johannes Sel bercarius
dicti Roberti -
iiij
Johannes Boteler brasia-
tor dicti Roberti -
iiij
Elias Boteler serviens
dicti Roberti -
iiij
Johannes Waler serviens
dicti Roberti-
1 "ij
1 1 Johannes Homite labor-)
1 1 arius
'' Christiana uxor ejus -j
¦ Ricardus Thatcher coop-)
i e rator
;. Matildis uxor ejus -)
|j Christiana Stambourne -
;i Robertus Clement frifu-]
! ; rator
' Alicia uxor ejus - -)
;! Johannes Smith faber - 1
i| Alicia uxor ejus ¦ - -i
Johannes serviens dicti
Johannis
Geffrius Wo  - -)
Agneta uxor ejus- - -j
Johannes Tyller - -)
Amya uxor ejus brasia- -
trix- - - - -)
Johannes Kentford schre-)
veyner -
Katerina uxor ejus - -J
Willelmus Meller mnlen-
dinarius
Johannes Bere bercarius)
Margereta uxor ejus- -j
Johannes Rogyn agricola)
Alicia uxor ej us brasiatrix j
1 Thomas Edward fritHO
rator - r
Margeria uxor ejus - -J
Margeria Gernonsereie/is'j
Johannis Pope capel- -
lani  -)
Elias Wytlok laborarius - \
Margeria uxor ejus -/
, ji Johanna Jay sjvjnner -
d.
xvj X
XX
VUJ xij
VUJ
XIJ
vnj
110

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Willelmus Holboy tenta-
tor carucarum
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes Schepherde ber
carius
Amicia uxor ejus -
Willelmus Brewster la-
borarius
Margeria uxor ejus
Christiana Nugge - -
Robertus Aubry agricola
Johanna uxor ejus
Alicia Threiu
Willelmus sen-lens Ro
berti Aubry -
Johannes Crowes agricola
Agneta uxor ejus - - -
Willelmus filius eorundem
Agneta Wade
Willelmus Marchal cor-
sour
Margeria uxor ejus

-i

[-180 Lay Subsidy-]
L 40 Suffolk J

"J

1 „

d.

xij

XIJxijxij
iiij

vj
xvj

Matildis Marchal -
Thomas serviens W. Mar
chal
Johannes Pattemere tri-
turator
Agneta uxor ejus -
Robertussemiens Rectoris)
Isoude uxor ejus
Johannes Masonn ser
viens dicti Rectoris
Johannes Holboy ser
viens dicti Rectoris -
Johannes Clement ser
viens dicti Rectoris
Ricardus Wyth serviens
Roberti Aisschfeld
Rogerus Seman serviens
dieti Roberti

s.

d.

viij

xij

¦ ij

ii

iiij
iiij
iiij
|
vj
iiij
Summa lxxvs.
Wyrdewell
Hec est indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contrairrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laica
tres grotes anno regni ejusdem iiijt0 ex una parte et Willelmum
Rosshebrook chivaler et socios collectores dicti subsidii ex altera
parte et Galfridum Osbun senioreni Willelmum Sampsonn consta
bularios Galfridum Osbun juniorem Johannem Porter juniorem
subcollectores ejusdem subsidii ville de Wyrdewelle ex tercia parte
de numero et nominibus subseriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem
videlicet,
Johannes Porter junior)
agricola ¦ - - -
Johanna uxor ejus - -)
Johannes Wetherde ber-)
carius - - - c
Agneta uxor ejus- - -)
Willelmus Sampsonn ber
carius - -
Isabella uxor ejus
s.
d.
ij
iiij
ij
iiij
>j
iiij
junior)
Galfridus Osbun
agricola -
Alicia uxor ejus - -J
Galfridus Osbun senior)
laborarias - - - - -
Claricia uxor ejus - -J
Willelmus Frenssh thac
her - • -
Lucia uxor ejus
d.
iiij xij
Johannes Porter senior)
bercarius - - -|
Agneta uxor ejus - - - 1
Galfridus Bosari labor-
arius
Alicia uxor ejus

APPENDIX I.
d.

mj xij

Alexander Wulward ber
carius -
Alicia uxor ejus
Sabyn Bosard

:l!

Summa personarum xix
Summa denariorum xix.s.

tlSO Lay Subsidy-] Damaged, faded and incomplete.
34 Suffolk J
Hadleghe in Huxdredo de C'orsforde

111 d.
iiij xij

Thomas Falledew art if ex)
Alicia uxor ejus -j"
Edmundus Faus agricola I
Margareta uxor ejus- -/
Johannes Vaus famulus
ejus
Rogerus Payn operarius ¦
Ricardus Reynold textor)
Agneta uxor ejus- -j
Johannes Gowene car-cen-)
tarius -
Alicia uxor ejus -j
Johannes Coyfe parve
tenure -
Adam Geulond oper- )
arius - - ;-
Agneta uxor ejus - - j
Radulfus Mabylonn agri- )
cola - - - -
Agneta uxor ejus - - J
Thomas de Benton oper- )
arius -
Alicia uxor ejus • -J
Johanna famula ejus
Johannes Thedam textor t
Agneta uxor ejus- -j
Stephanus Boteler mer-)
cator ¦
Isabella uxor ejus -J
Johannes Parys famulus)
Margareta uxor ejus- -j
Adam Rebat textor
Agneta uxor ejus-
Johannea Rebat- junior
textor -
Isabella Cage famula
Margareta filia ejus -
Rogerus Mentyl tissor ¦)
Margareta uxor ejus- -j
Johanna Hewes famulus

d.

Xlj

XI]
xij

XVUJ xij xij
xij
xij xij

vj
vj
xij

if

: Alicia de Bentone parve
tenure -
Cristina filia ejus
j Johannes Bayn fuller
1 Alicia uxor ejus - - )
. Cristina famula ejus
Johannes Clerk fuller -|
Emma uxor ejus - -j
Robertus Costyn messor
Lora uxor ejus
Margareta famula ejus -
' Johannes Mellere molen- )
dinarius
Emma uxor ejus - -J
Thomas Wryghte car- )
2>entarius -
Margareta uxor ejus- -J
Alicia filia ejus -
Alicia Baldewene famula
Ricardus Coleman artifex)
Anna uxor ejus - - "
Willelmus Bayn mercator
Margeria uxor ejus - -
Johannes Goye famulus -
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Barat
Alicia uxor ejus - -
Johannes Sayer bercher -
Alicia famula
Johannes Teppyng famu-)
his
Margareta uxor ejus- -J
! Willelmus Betteojoerarius I
! Agneta uxor ejus - - j
Agneta filia ejus famula
Johannes Waryn oper-)
j arius - - r
Caterina uxor ejus -J
Johannes Gastoune -\
Margareta uxor ejus- -J

vj

mj
viij

ill] xij

Xljxij
viij
viij

XI] vj
xij

112

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 13S1.

Ricardus Preston fuller-)
Alicia uxor ejus -J
Willelmus Wiyghte car
pentarius - -
Isabella uxor ejus -
Nicholaus Boneyr fuller- )
Cristina uxor ejus - -f
Ricardus Pyper artifex-
Alicia uxor ejus
Thomas Sampson
Alexander Muggard
 mercator
Isabella uxor ejus
Sara famula ejus -
[Here the document be
comes illegible and is
partially gone]
Johannes Drake sissor
Elena Neeys famula ¦
Willelmus Reyner oper-
arius - -
Alicia uxor ejus
Robertus Sparwe pan-
narius - -
Ada uxor ejus-
Caterina uxor famula
ejus - -
Aug. Crembyl claud (?) -
Alicia famula ejus - -
Willelmus Hemmyg chin-
chere
Cristina uxor ejus
Alicia Meller famula
Ricardus Hayl fuller -\
Alicia uxor ejus -)
Ricardus Cock pannarius)
Agneta uxor ejus- -J
Alicia famula ejus
Johannes St. . operarius)
Johanna uxor ejus -J
Margareta famula ejus -
Johannes Pedebef pan
nanus -
Margareta uxor ejus-
Alicia filia ejus
Johannes filius ejus -
Margareta Broun brasia
trix
Alicia famula ejus
Edmundus Wolleman
agricola
 uxor ejus -
 Cartere - [
Agneta uxor ejus- -)
Galfridus Taylor sissor -\
Johanna uxor ejus - 1

"J

vnj

vnj viij

mj xij xij vj
xviij iiij
iiij

vjvj
xij
iiij

xij xij

Robertus Bele carpen-)
tarius - - - - 1
Agneta uxor ejus - - J
Willelmus Wodyer pan-)
varius - - - r
Matildis uxor ejus -J
Alicia famula ejus
Johannes Rebat tinctor-)
Margareta uxor ejus- -j
Johannes .... pannarius)
Matildis uxor ejus -j
Johannes famula ejus
Bartolameus Sloutere
Alicia uxor ejus
[Several names here are
illegible]
Ricardus Nel tinctor-
 uxor ejus
Alicia famula ejus
[Several names are illeg
ible here]
Ricardus Semer panna
rius
Johannes Pelle J'uller
Alicia Skynner
[Many names illegible
here]
Johanna Chynchere
Ricardus Saltere
Lucia uxor ejus
Willelmus Taylor -
Alicia uxor ejus
Rogerus Preston cissor -
Agneta uxor ejus-
[Several names illegible
here]
Johanna Alston
Johannes Busch parve
tenure -
Lucia uxor ejus
Thomas Greyne pan- )
narins - •*¦
Cristina uxor ejus - 1
WillelmusBrounyngjwH- 1
nanus - -
Cristina uxor ejus - -J
Thomas Skalman pan- )
nanus - ...
A  uxor ejus -J
Willelmus Brownyng)
junior pannarius - -
Alicia uxor ejus -J

d. xij

vj
xij

"J

vj

xviij

mj ij
ij

APPENDIX I.

113

*¦ ijij j
ij I
ij
ij

Robertus famulus ejus
Alicia atte Hel vidua
Alicia Pese vidua -
Robertus Sprot .-nt,.r -)
Juliana uxor eju? -j
Johanna famula ejn-
Willelmus Heydone
Elena uxor ejus
Alicia famula ejub
Willelmus Dobbys p'ni-
narius -
Rosa uxor ejus -
Johannes Cukhok ¦:nr-
pentarius -
Cristina uxor ejus -
Stepanus Porter fuller - 1
Matildis uxor ejus -/
Petrus Conper -
Johannes Mitte textor - >
Dennis uxor ejus- -j
Nicholaus Chaundeler
Agneta Gyssok -
Johannes Bonecold pati-
narius -
Johanna uxor ejus
Johannes Achelard fu Her
Margareta uxor ejus-
Johannes Baxter - - 1
Johanna uxor ejus -j
Thomas Smyth fiber -)
Johanna uxor ejus
Johanna .... famvhi -J
Johannes Chapman mer-)
cator
Johanna uxor ejus -J
Johannes Spr . .
Alicia famula ejus
Johannes Spr . .
[Many names are gone
here]

Johannes Damysielde - ) ' -
De . . . . uxor ejus - - /
Ricardus Smyth agricola ,
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Chapman agri- •
cola ...
Margareta uxor ejus- - '
Johannes Salter
Caterina uxor ejus
Ricardus Wade
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes filius ejus - ij
Willelmus Wade. famulus j
Johannes Whelwryghte - ; ij
Alicia uxor ejus -
Johannes Alayn tinctor - j ij
Lu . . . uxor ejus

| ij
I viij
I

d.
xij vj
vj

XIJ
xij
viij xij
viij

x-nj vj
Xlj

xu

vnj

Nicholaus Dexter earn-
carius -
Roger frater ejus -
Johannes Juslisefamulus
Cristina uxor ejus
i Johannes Cok operarius - 1
! Johanna uxor ejus -j
! Johannes Hamond agri
cola
Cristina uxor ejus
Johannes Chelisworth
tinctor-
Isabella uxor ejus - -
Johannes B . . hel scissor)
Cristina uxor ejus -j
Johannes Barker textor -
Johannes Cytlyng
Johanna uxor ejus
I; Thomas Fut pannarius -
I Matildis uxor ejus
j Johannes Medwe agri
cola
|| Margeria uxor ejus -
!| Willelmus Ros agricola -
• Johanna uxor ejus
j Johannes Ros pannarius
! Johanna uxor ejus -
| Johannes famulus ejus-)
jCristena uxor ejus -j
j Elena famula ejus
i Onnfre Denarstone agri-
! cola - ¦
¦ Johannes Marscal launter
i Isabella uxor ejus
..Nicholaus Goyer oper-
[[ arius - - - -
Alicia uxor ejus
.] Johannes Bowel agricola
Agneta uxor ejus -
1 Rogerus filius ejus
i Johannes Beneyt - -)
; Ernaburga uxor ejus -J
iiAufrid Mauncer agricola
'(Johannes Mancer filius
ejus agricola
Margareta uxor ejus-
Galfridus Meller -
Johanna uxor ejus
Ricardus filius ejus
i Margareta uxor ejus-
', ; Johannes Lyonn -
; Alicia uxor ejus
Matildis Schayl famula
;: Johannes Godefrey. .
'I Johanna uxor ejus
: Willelmus Cappe textor
]| Alicia uxor ejus
'Johannes Herst carpen-
! tarius
>j Alicia uxor ejus

xijxij
xij

»Jij
iij ij

xijxij

xij

xij

xij

xij

'J X
iij

xij

114

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Nicholaus Meller
Johannes Prentys sutor
Agneta uxor ejus - -
Cristina Dapys fumula
Alioia Falledew famula ¦
Johannes Sextayn
Cristina uxor ejus

Johannes Colermaker
Alicia uxor ejus
Helena Den
Johannes Schapman
camcator
Alicia uxor ejus

mj

Summa totalis viicv
Summa .... xxxvK. vs.

T180 Lay Subsidy-]
L.47 Suffolk 'J

Hartisjiere Hundred

Tweyt
Hec est. indentura tripartita facta inter Willelmum Tendryng
chivaler et socios suos assessores et contra irrotulatores ultimi
subsidii domino Regi concessi videlicet de qualibet persona laica
tres grotes anno regni ejusdem quarto ex una parte et Willelmum
Ruschebrok chivaler et socios suos collectores dicti subsidii ex
parte altera et Johannem Melforth Jacobum Melle Matheum
Sparwe Johannem Elmswelle  Alexandrem Neue constabu
larios et subcollectores ejusdem subsidii de Tweyt ex tercia parte
de numero et nominibus subseriptis et de gradu et statu eorundem
videlicet :

Agricole

s.

d.

Sutores

s.

d.

Matheus Sparwe agricola

iiij

Johannes Melforthe sutor)
Johanna uxor ejus -J

I

Alicia Sparwe - - -

ij

1UJ

Johannes Fuller agricola

ij

Nicolaus Petel sutor -
iij
Margareta uxor ejus-
Margeria uxor ejus
Jacobus Melle - -
iij
Galfridus Coray sutor
ij
vj
Alicia uxor ejus
Anna uxor ejus
Alexander Neue agricola
ij
Artifices
[Laboratores?]
Willelmus Garlek brasi-
Ricardus Bisohop-
xvj
ator-
iij
Warrena uxor ejus
Johanna uxor ejus -
xviij
Johannes Garlek filius
Margeria uxor ejus
ejus
iiij
Willelmus Atte Cros
iij
Johannes Elmswell car-
Elyna uxor ejus
pentarius - -
ij
Johannes Chaumber -
xviij
Anna uxor ejus brasia-
Margeria uxor ejus -
trix
Willelmus Tweyt webber
xviij
xij
trix
xij
Johannes Hil 
APPENDIX I.

Servientes
Matildis  -
Agneta Deye
Margeria Deye . . .
Rogerus Skoyt
Johanna uxor eju>
Katerina Neue
Walterus E  rcher
Margeria uxor ejus
Agneta filia ejus

vj

Servientes (cont.)
Matildis Dromer
Willelmus Sparwe

Johannes Holgate
Rogerus Fuller
Johannes Folk
Rosa uxor ejus
Margeria Munk

Summa nominum personarum xlviij
Summa denariorum ijli. viijs.
[On dorse of skin]
Summa personarum istoriun xxij rotulorum
XX
mmm iiij v Inde subsidio cliiijtt. v.s.

115 d.

T180 Lay Subsidy"] Part, of a skin.
L 34 Suffolk J

Mutford Hundred

Juliana

Willelmus Wyard
Henricus Burghard

li

xi] !
x!i !
XI] !|

Petrus Webster
Agatha uxor ejus-
Ricardus Clericus-

Snmma omnium personarum de villate de Kessinglond cccv
Summa denariorum xv . li. v . s.

Constabularii

Henricus Donnison ]
Johannes Malle \ Jurati
. Alanus Archere )
( Ricardus de Childerhous
( Edmundus le Smyth
Collectores -I Thomas de Medwe
I Willelmus de ....

onorantur infra

Jurati

il.
iiij xij

T180 Lay Subsidy-]
|_34 Suffolk J

A damaged fragment of a skin.

Johannes Bra- 1
nam .,,7.^,..,.
, , -cultores
Johanna uxor
ejus - -j
Adam de Tang- 1
,tham. -cultores
Margeria uxor
ejus -j

Blything

Hundred

BUXLOWE

1 «.
1

d.

Willelmus BoA
,rke.le. '[cultores
Mariota uxor

s. |

ejus - -j
Rogerus Put--]
toli" '[cultores
iij
1
ejus -j
d.
8—2
116

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Willelmus Dal- 1
.r^n" . -i cultores
Margaret uxor .
ejus -j
Robertus Crofford
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes  cissor
Mariota uxor ejus
Johannes Da-1)
sach - carpen-
Mabella uxor " tarius
ejus - )

s. | d.

"J

Ricardus Derhawe ser
viens
Margareta uxor ejus -
Mariota Derhawe -
Robertus Derhawe
Johannes Schere -

Summa
Summa

 uxor ejus
Ricardus Fleded
Ricardus Pykbon -
Margareta Crofford
Margareta Aldech
Willelmus Aldech

nommum personarum .
denariorum xxviis.

Willelmus Dallyng constabularius et oneratur superius.

[-240 Lay Subsidy "1
[_308 Divers CountiesJ

Blything Hundred
Ben ac re

Willelmus Bol-
J-nge -
Mabilia ejus -
Johannes

"i

-cultor

M:\. }¦ piscator

man
Agneta uaui ;
ejus - J
Elenor serviens ejus -
Johanna Alman serviens
ejus
Thomas Mara-^
ille- - . t
Margeria uxor,^™*"'
ejus -j
Willelmus Al-\
man - 1 •
Agneta uxor \P'^«tor
ejus - -J
Johannes filius ejus -
Alexander filius ejus
Michael sewiens ejus -
Johannes Bond piscator - )
Johanna uxor ejus -J
Matildis Burkyn mater
ejus ....
Alicia Mincin cultor -
Robertus Mincin cultor-)
Alicia uxor ejus -J
Alicia filia ejus
Robertus serviens ejus -
Ricardus serviens Roberti
Bonde -

»J

"J

xij xij
viij vj

XIJXlj

vnjviij

T
Rey-\

-cultor

Willelmus Cut]
Agneta uxor j- carucator
ejus -
Johannes sonn -
Margeria ejus - - -I
Edmundus filius ejus
Robertus Reysonn pis
cator - - ¦
Margareta uxor ejus- -
Henricus aHe}
Newhous - -
Matildis uxor Plscat0>'
ejus - -
Johannes filius ejus -
Robertus Qua--)
rel - -
Isabella uxor h"cator
ejus - -
Johannes Cul-
ford - piscator
Alioia uxor ejus)
Johannes filius ejus
Willelmus atte see pis
cator
Juliana uxor ejus
Johannes attel

see-
Margeria uxor
ejus

piscator

[Rest of this illegible]

d.
xiij vj
vj
XX
iiij
viij vj vj
vj

APPENDIX I.

117

BULCAMP

Johannes de]
Middleton- .
Isabella uxor j •""'"""'' "s
ejus- -)
Johannes Mountys ser
viens - - .
Johannes Randekyn ser
viens
Reginaldus de Cisterne
serviens
Adam Brok serviens ejus
Alicia Brok serviens ejus
Johannes Atered cultor -
Margareta uxor ejus-
Willelmus Oliground ser
viens
Johannes Byschop ser
viens
Ricardus servient ejus
Johannes Soun serviens -
Agnes serviens ejus

i
| i!ij
iiijiiij
iiij
mj
iiij
iiij
iiij
iiijmj
mj

Johannes Jebbys)
Agneta uxor ejusj"c ""'
Johannes Brok - )
Johanna uxor \ cultor
ejus - -J
Johannes West -)
Clemeneia uxor \ cultor
ejus -J
: Walterus  serviens
, Willelmus  ^
kys
Margareta uxor f"
ejus -J

cultor

cultor

Willelmus Bassat)
;; Alicia uxor ejus-/
Ij Stephanus Turry -
¦ ; Margareta uxor ejus-
'i  Haldene spynner
|j  Prillay spynner

VJ
vj

xijxij

Nicholas Foolfirmarius -
Matildis uxor ejus -
Johannes serviens ejus -
Robertus Brok cultor

Bregge

d.

Agneta uxor ejus -
Willelmus Deye
Agneta uxor ejus -
Katerina serviens ejus

Summa personarum ccxxi
„ denariorum xi . li. siid.
Johannes Jebbys |
Nicholas Fool ) 0»ei'antur super.

r!80 Lay Subsidy"] The name of this township is quite illegible.
L.37 Suffolk J
Indentura facta inter Willelmum Tendryng chivaler et socios
suos assessores et contra irrotulatores et Willelmum Rosshebrooke
 suos collectores subsidii domino Regi nostro concessi in
ultimo parliamento apud northampton anno regni sui quarto ex
una parte et Ricardum Webstere Johannem Loche constabu
larios Johannem Souter Thomam Lymghook subassessores ville de
 qualibet capite iij grotes ut patet per nomina subscripta :

118

SUFFOLK POLL TAX LISTS, 1381.

Agricole
Rogerus Frary-
Juliana uxor ejus
Adam Schalo
Matildis uxor ejus
Thomas Bettes
Agneta uxor ejus ¦
Thomas Simond
 uxor ejus
 Goodwyn -
Willelmus Larlyng
Agneta uxor ejus -
Johannes 
Margareta uxor ejus
Ricardus Webestere
Margareta uxor ejus
Willelmus 
Cecilia uxor ejus -
Ricardus Frauneeys -
Matildis uxor ejus
Walterus Reed
Katerina uxor ejus
Johannes Loche
Beatrix uxor ejus
Willelmus Draper
Katerina uxor ejus
Willelmus Tyller -
Colleta uxor ejus- -
Willelmus Bencold -
Agneta uxor ejus-
Thomas Lymghok
Agneta uxor eju3 -
Johannes Spencer
Agneta uxor ejus -
Ricardus Gunnyld -
Matildis uxor ejus
Carpentarii
 Massyon
Sibilia uxor ejus -
Thomas Fissher
Johannes Bettes
Letitia uxor ejus -
Willelmus Aylmere
A  uxor ejus
Cissores
Johannes Anelye -
Janet uxor ejus -
Ricardus Barker
Margeria uxor ejus
Rogerus Clement -
Matildis uxor ejus
[Artifices!]
Thomas Kra(ne)
Agneta uxor ejus-

I

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•) !

-j,

:};

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i'j ij
iij
i'jiij
iijiij ij
iiij ij ij
iij ijij
ij
ij

d. ,| Artifices I (cont.)
ji Thomas 

.Robertus Coupere webber
j| Alicia uxor ejus
xxx Johannes Broun ber
carius - - -
Nicholaus Byllyng co-
opertor
Katerina uxor ejus
Johannes Goodwyn tur
ner -

vnj xij!i ij

XVllj

Laboratores
Alexander Gylles -
Alicia uxor ejus
Thomas Drenkestone
Agneta uxor ejns-
Willelmus Barker
Alicia uxor ejus
"Matildis Snowwhyte -
Agneta filia ejus
Alicia Wylde -
Joh  ejusdem
Joh 
Agneta uxor ejus -
Thomas Nichole
Margeria uxor ejus
Thomas Parker
Katerina uxor ejus
Robertus Morel -
Margareta Godard
Willelmus atte Hel
Alicia uxor ejus
Johannes Frauneeys -
Isabella uxor ejus
Henricus Belee
Katerina uxor ejus
Matildis Belee - -
Margareta de Ford
Alicia uxor ejus
Walterus Hargham
Agneta Koune -
Agneta Shepherde
j Margareta Krane -
¦ Margeria Byllyng -
Faber
Thomas Resshebrook
Margareta uxor ejus -
Soutere
, Robertus Joyze
: Clare uxor ejus
Servientes
' Johannes Frary
'Agneta uxor ejus-
Agneta Chaloner :
Johanna Chaloner

:}:(-!-/
-1-/

-I

:) «.
i|

xviij

xvj
xviij xij
xviij xij
xij

xijxij

xij Xlj
xij

Xljxijxij

xij vjvj

APPENDIX I.

119

Servientes (cont.)
Matildis Bettes -
Johannes Symond
Willelmus Symond
Alicia 
Agneta Goodwyn -
Isabell Poreth
Nicholaus Akk
Johannes Reve
Matelldis Shepherde -
Issabella Resshebrook
Willelmus Frauneeys
Lucia Frauneeys -
Johannes Love
Agneta Wymdyssh

d.

I Servientes (cont.)
| Johannes Perot
1 Rosa uxor ejus
; Nicholaus Ree -
| Robertus Dayoa
Rosa uxor ejus
| Johannes Osborn -
I Alicia uxor ejus
I Alicia Perdon - -
, Beatrix Lymghook
1 Willelmus Spicor -
i Mariota Tyller -
:  Estryle
I Sarra Gylley

:)

Summa nominum ejusdem . . .
Summa denariorum in toto vifi. ixs.

(A fragment of some place in Plomesgate Hundred?)

T180 Lay Subsidy"]
L 34 Suffolk J

•• j d- 1
k.
d.
Agneta Martyn
1 xiji
Johannes Grenne junior
Dassella Martyn
xij |
Johanna Dotemay
Johannes Lof -
, XX j
Margeria Martyn -
Sarra uxor ejus
' xij ;
Oliva Martyn - - - -
Johannes Lof junior
xij
Alicia Iken - -
Willelmus Fenman
xij j
Galfridus Lenyng- -
Cristina uxor ejus
xij
Margeria Arnald -
Robertus Cosyn
; Xlj i
Ricardus Svyn
Johannes Sveyn
i xiii j 1 1 Agneta Burgh -
vj
Cristina uxor ejus -
Robertus Knot - -
mj
Johannes Sueyn junior -
j
Margeria famula Thome 1
iiij
Henricus Va -
1
Ossegut - -j
Agneta uxor ejus-
i
Margeria Wygg
X
Willelmus Arnald
1
Agneta Small - - -
Johannes Reve
xvj
Johannes Smyth - -
Saiena Buntyng
viij
Thomas Wescard -
Thomas Donne
xvj |' Robertus Nyse-
Alicia Meye
j iiij i Thomas Dokes
xij
Mabella del Hem
i iiij ' Agneta uxor ejus-
xij
Willelmus Weyne-
i VJ
: Robertus Rede
Xlj
Mateldis Fynch
! mj
1 Alicia uxor ejus -
xij
Margeria Thyth
vj
| Johannes Pynchebek
Xlj
Alicia Wastetl -
| Matildis Souter
xij
Johannes Arnald
.
| Johannes Baron
xij
Matildis Lose
' Alicia Baron
Xlj
Avelina Neuman
' Thomas Schmyth
Xlj
Margeria Rede-
i Matildis Frere -
Xlj
Galfridus H  e
Henricus Hers -
xij
Johannes Wytyng
xij
Si
mma personarum ccx
Sr
mma denariorum xii. xs.
POPULATION OF ENGLAND IN 1377 AND 1381.
The following tables show the Population of England, as given
by the returns for the Lay Poll Taxes of 1377 and 1381. The
figures are taken from contemporary documents drawn up on the
completion of the collections of the taxes, and preserved in the
Lord Treasurer's Office.
Two copies of the return for 1377, and one of that for 1381,
are to be found in the Public Record Office, referred to as Lord
Treasurer's Remembrancer, Enrolled Accounts (Subsidies) No. 13.
It will be observed that the counties of Cheshire, Durham and
Monmouth were not included in the returns. The 1377 Poll Tax
was levied on all persons over 14 years of age, and that of 1381
on all persons over 15 years.
An abstract of the results of the Poll Tax of 1377 was printed
by Mr Topham in Vol. vn. of the Archceologia, but no reference
was there given, whereby the document from which his returns
were taken can be identified. I do not think however that they
were taken directly from these enrolled accounts, as in some
particulars they differ from them, though the general result is
much the same. It may also be mentioned that there is a slip in
printing the total in Mr Topham' s list, for the figures he gives
come to 19203 less than the total which appears at the foot of
his table.
The returns on the enrolled accounts are given in the following
form, and I give the return for Norfolk in full for the 1381 Tax
as an example.
Norff. Compotus Johannis Harsyk chivaler Thome de Berney chivaler
Willelmi Hastyng Johannis Hales Johannis Reed Roberti Hake-
beche Willelmi Cursun de Billyngford et Willelmi Burell de
Hevyngham collectorum subsidii predicti in comitatu Norffolchie
exceptis civitate Norwici et villa de Lenne per breve Regis
patens de magno sigillo datum vij. die Decembris dicto anno
quarto super hunc compotum restitutum per supervisum et contra-
rotulacionem Stephani Hales chivaler Edmundi de Reynham
chivaler Ricardi Illeye chivaler Georgii Sefoul Johannis de

APPENDIX I.

121

Fyncham Henrici de Pakenham et Willelmi Ketel de Iteryng-
ham supervisorum et contrarotulatorum subsidii predicti videlicet
de eodem subsidio ut infra.
Iidem reddunt compotum de mmm ccc xxxv. li. xix. s. receptis
de predicto subsidio contingentem lxvj m dccxix. personas laicas
homines et feminas in predicto comitatu Norffolchie exceptis
predictis civitate Norwici et villa de Lenne per supervisum et
contrarotulationem predictum quarum quidem personarum nomina
status gradus et summe particulares singillatim annotantur in
Indenturis ipsorum collectorum et predictorum supervisorum et
contrarotulatorum de particulis in Thesauro liberatis videlicet
de qualibet persona iij. grossas sicut continentur in indenturis
predictis. 111 111
Summa recepta mmm ccc xxxv. li. xix. s. In Thesauro mmm
XX
cc iiij xiij. li. ij.s. iiij.c?. in ix talliis. Et eisdem collectoribus et
contrarotulatoribus pro misis et expensis suis xvij.li. iiij.s. vj.cZ.
Et Willelmo Wenlok1 clerico misso versus partes Norffolchie
predictis negotiis Regem tangentibus super custibus suis eundo
in negotiis predictis x\.li. per breve Regis de privato sigillo
prefatis collectoribus directum et imam partem Indenture inter
prefatum Johannem Reed eollectorem et prefatum Willelmum
Wenlock de receptis. De quibus quidem x.K. prefatus Willelmus
debet respondere Et respondit in retulo iiijt0 in "Adhuc Item
Norff." Et Debent xv.li. xij.s. ij.e?. Iidem reddunt compotum de
eodem debito in Thesauro liberatum et quieti sunt.

The Population of England as given by the Poll Tax
Returns in 1377 and 1381.

1377

1381

Bedfordshire -

20339

14895

Berkshire

22723

15696

Buckinghamshire

24672

17997

Cambridgeshire

27350

24324

Cambridge

1902

1739

Cornwall -

34274

12056

Cumberland

11841

4748

Penrith

no separate return

75

Carlisle

678

no separate return

Derbyshire

23243

15637

Derby

1046

no separate return

1 W. Wenlok clerk was one of the inspectors sent to Norfolk under the second
commission. L. T. R. Orig. 4 Ric. I. m. 12.

122 POPULATION OF ENGLAND IN 1377 AND 1381.

Devonshire Exeter -
PlymouthDartmouth ¦
DorsetshireEssex Colchester -
Gloucestershire Gloucester -
Bristol -
Hampshire Southampton
Isle of Wight -
Winchester
Herefordshire Hereford
Ludlow -
HertfordshireHuntingdonshireKent Canterbury
Rochester
LancashireLeicestershire Leicester
Lincolnshire Lincoln - - -
Close of Lincoln -
Boston Grimsby
KestevenHolland -
Stamford
Lindsey -
Middlesex -
London -
Norfolk Norwich Lynn -
Yarmouth -
Northamptonshire Northampton
Northumbeilaud -
Newcastle -
Nottinghamshire Nottingham
Newark -
Oxfordshire Oxford
Rutland Shropshire Shrewsbury
Somerset Bath Wells -
Staffordshire -
Lichfield

1377

1381

45635

20656

1560

1420

not given1

no separate return

506

ii >»

34241

19507

47962

30748

2955

1609

36760

27857

2239

1446

6345

5662

33241

22018

1152

1051

4733

3625

not given1

no separate return

15318

12659

1903

no separate return

1172

n »J

19975

13296

14169

11299

56557

43838

2574

2123

570

no separate return

23880

8371

31730

21914

2101

1708

3412

2196

157

no separate return

2871

>» j>

no separate return

562

21566

15734

18592

13795

1218

no separate return

47303

30235

11243

9937

23314

20397

88797

66719

3952

3833

3127

1824

1941

no separate return

40225

27997

1477

1518

14162

not given

2647

1819

26260

17442

1447

1266

1178

no separate return

24982

20588

2357

2005

5994

5593

23574

13041

2082

1616

54604

30384

570

297

901

487

21465

15993

1024

no separate return

1 Excluded from the return for the comity. Topham's list gives population of
Plymouth as 48S7, and Winchester as 1440.

Suffolk -
IpswichBury St Edmunds
Surrey Southwark
Sussex Chichester
Warwickshire Coventry
Westmoreland
Wiltshire Salisbury
Worcestershire Worcester
Yorkshire York -
Hull Scarborough
Beverley North Riding -
East Riding
West Riding Total

APPENDIX I.

1

1377

1381

58610

44635

1507

963

2-145

1334

: 18039

12684

! no separate return

1059

- ' 35326

26616

809

787

25447

20481

4817

3947

7389

3859

42599

30627

3226

2708

14542

12043

1557

932

; 7248

4015

1557

1124

no separate return

1480

2663

no separate return

331&5

15690

38238

25184

48149
23029
123
1355201
896451
The Clerical Population of England and Wales as given
by Poll Tax Returns in 1381 '.
Deaneries of Irchenfield and Ross
Deaneiy of Booking -
,, South Mailing
Archdeaconry of Chester
,, ,, Cornwall -
Deaneries of Weobley, Leominster,
and Weston
Archdeaconry of Hereford - -
Deaneries of Shoreham and Croydon
Archdeaconrv of Winton
Regular and
Secular
Clergy2
t Deacons, Acolytes
and Inferior Clergy
i over the age of '
16 years-
102
i 16
26
! 1
24
3
303
1 5
369
. 81
rome ,
1 186
22
113
| 15
96
870
1 80
1 L. T. R. Enrolled Accounts Subsidies, No. 4 in P. R. O.
2 L.T.E. originalia, 4 Ric. II. m. 49. To the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dated December 20, 4 Ric. II.:
' Quod omnes et singnli prelati etiaui regulares cujuscnnque gradus status
ordinis sexus vel condicionis meruit ac clerici quomodocunque promoti etiam si
exempti privilegeati qualitercunque fueiiut omnesque presbiteri non promoti tarn
regulares quain seculares ac etiam mouiales infra vestram provinciam constituti
omnesque et singnli advocati prociiratores examinatores registi-atores et notarii
publici singnli videlicet viginti grossos omnesque et smgnli diaconi subdiaconi
accoliti et alii inferiores etatis sex decern annorum et ultra in gradu et habitn
clericali quomodolicet existentes qui mendicantes notorie non fuerint tres grossos
nobis terminis snpradictis persolvent.'
124 POPULATION OF ENGLAND IN 1377 AND 1381.

Begular

\ Deacons, Acolytes
and Inferior Clergy

and

Secular

over the age of

Clergy
16 years
Archdeaconry of Surrey
317
20
,, „ Gloucester
355
30
„ „ Worcester
568
32
,, „ Salop -
164
13
,, >. Coventry - ¦
455
36
Deaneries of Stonehouse, Cirencester, Fair-
ford, Dursley, Hawkesbury, Button, Bristol
372
26
Archdeaconries of Hunts and Beds
980
157
Diocese of Ely - - - - -
625
134
Archdeaconries of Norfolk and Norwich
1745
168
,, „ Suffolk and Sudbury
1230
68
„ ,, Chichester
256
22
Cathedral of Chichester - -
63
14
Deaneries of Ludlow and Burford
74
8
Archdeaconry of Lewes -
356
7
City and Diocese of Canterbury -
770
17
Archdeaconries of York, Richmond, East
Riding, Cleveland -
2295
94
Archdeaconry of Totton
326
93
St Albans ...
127
21
Archdeaconry of Barnstaple
196
12
City of Rochester
275
Archdeaconries of Bucks and Oxon
1047
77
„ „ Dorset and Sarum -
1051
174
, „ Lincoln and Stow
2463
43
, ,, Bath and Wells -
642
72
„ Berks and Wilts
731
108
, ,, Nottingham
448
21
, „ Taunton
298
26
, ,, Colchester - - -
423
21
„ Northampton and Leicester
1802
25
Deaneries of Clun, Pontesbury and Wenlock
122
Archdeaconry of Derby -
379
13
Deanery of St Mary Bow
102
6
,, Stottesden
22
Archdeaconry of Essex -
394
10
„ „ London
631
34
City and Diocese of Durham
304
31
County of Northumberland
268
Archdeaconry of Middlesex
384
49
Cathedral of London
108
14
Archdeaconry of Exeter
259
24
„ „ Stafford
367
9
25883
1952
Wales.
Diocese and City of St Asaph
149
5
Archdeaconry of St David -
189
8
,, „ Merioneth and Deanery of
Arwestly
70
3
„ „ Carmarthen -
100
7
,, ,, Brecon
124
1
,, „ Cardigan -
105
„ „ Anglesea -
38
1
775
25
APPENDIX I. 125
The clerical return for 1381 is rather smaller than that of
1377 ; the latter gave a total clerical population in England and
Wales of 30,350, but no mention is made of Northumberland or of
the Diocese of Durham. There is no return for the Diocese of
Carlisle for the 1381 tax; neither do the returns for the Welsh
Dioceses for that year appear to be complete, Llandaff being
omitted altogether.

APPENDIX II.
TRANSCRIPTS. EXTRACTS PROM VARIOUS
DOCUMENTS.
(Antient Indictments 128. Suffolk.)
Placita corone apud Mildenhale coram Willelmo de Ufford
cornite Suffblcie Rogero Skales Thoma de Morieux Willelmo de
Elmham Johanne de Bourgh et Willelmo de Wyngefeld die
Jo vis proximo post festum nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste
anno regni Regis Ricardi secundi post cenquestum quinto
[27 June 1381].
[Suffolk] Johannes Poter de Somerton fullere coram
prefatis Justiciariis impetitus est per Johannem de Pole nuper
camerarium domini Johannis de Cavendyssh nuper capitalis
Justiciarii domini Regis de eo quod ipse die veneris proximo post
festum Corporis Christi anno regni Regis nunc quarto [14 June
1381] fuit apud Lakyngheth et ibidem cum magna potestate et
modo guerrini surexit contra dominum Regem et corone digni
tatem et ibidem die et anno supradictis predictus Johannes
Poter proditiose et felonice presens abettavit et procuravit alios
proditores et inimicos domini Regis predictum Johannem de
Cavendyssh ad interficiendum et super hoc predictus Johannes
Poter captus et modo coram prefatis Justiciariis per vicecomitem
ductus allocutus est qualiter de feloniis et proditionibus predictis
se velit acquietare dicit quod ipse in nullo est inde culpabilis et
de hoc de bono et malo ponit se super patriam Ideo fiat inde
Jurata Juratores veniunt qui de consensu ipsius Johannis Poter
adhoc elect! et jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod
predictus Johannes Poter de Somerton fullere est culpabilis

APPENDIX II. 127
de feloniis et proditionibus sibi impositis. Ideo consideratum
decollates
est quod predictus Johannes Poter decapitetur et quod capud
suum tigatur super collistridium etc. Inquiratur de terris et
catallis. Placita corone apud Villam de Sancto Edmundo coram
prefatis Justiciariis die sabbati in festo Apostolorum Petri et
Pauli anno regni Regis Ricardi seeundi post conquestum quinto
[29 July 1381].
[Suffolk] Georgius de Donnesby de Com. Lincoln impetitus
est per Johannem Osbem Aldermannum ville predicte et per
plures homines fidedignos ejusdem ville de eo quod ipse isto
eodem die venit apud sanctum Edmundum et ibidem consulit
diversis hominibus ejusdem ville surgere contra dominum Regem
et fideles ligeos dicti domini Regis precipiendo et eis firmiter
injungendo quod ipsi surgerent sub pena forisfactorum vite et
membrorum et ulterius dixit quod ipse est nuntius magne
societati? et missus est ad villam Sancti Edmundi predicti ad
faciendum comunitatem ejusdem ville surgere et super hoc captus
et coram prefatis Justiciariis per vicecomitem ductus et instanter
allocutus est qualiter de feloniis et proditionibus predictis se velit
acquietare quiquidem Georgius coram prefatis Justiciariis omnes
felonias et proditiones sibi impositas sponte et non vi cognovit et
bene et aperte sustinuit Ideo consideratum est quod predictus
decollatus
Georgius de Donnesby decapitetur et quod capud suum figatur
super collistridium etc. per quod inquiratur de terris et catallis.

(Antient Indictments 128. Suffolk.)
hundredum lose.
[Suffolk] Juratores presentant quod Thomas Sampson
Johannes de Batisford persona ecclesie de Bokelesham et
Ricardus Talmache de Benteleye congregatores sustentores et
interligatores hominum in hundredo de Sannford Gippewici
Carleford Wylford et Lose tempore levationis modo guerrini
contra dignitatem corone domini Regis venerunt in villa de
Melton cum multitudine aliorum ignotorum die dominica proxima
post festum corporis Christi anno- regni domini Regis Ricardi
seeundi post conquestum quarto [16 June 1381] felonice et
fraudulenter fregerunt et delaceraverunt clausum et domos

128 INDICTMENTS.
Willelmi Frauneeys apud Melton et ibidem aurum argentum
pecias de argento cokelearia cifos de rnaser zonas annulos pannos
lineos et laneos utensilia domi viz. vessel de peutre bacyns
lavours lanarn brasium frumentum bestias diversorum generum
et alia bona et catalla ad valentiam c raarcarum apud Melton
felonice depredaverunt et asportaverunt.
Item dicunt quod Willelmus Bernard de Coppedok predicta
die dominica anno supradicto tempore levationis modo guerrini
et contra dignitatem corone domini Regis felonice venit cum
multitudine aliorum ignotorum in villa de Eyk et ibidem
clausum et domos Johannis Staverton de Eyk apud Eyk fregit
et delaceravit et ibidem diversas pixides dicti Johannis similiter
fregit et cartas scriptas cum aliis munimentis dicti Johannis
felonice asportavit ad dampnum dicti Johannis Staverton c.
solidorum [etc.].
Hundred of Lose. Juratores pro Rege.
Thomas Crane. Juratus. Robertus Schort. Juratus.
Johannes Old. „ Rogerus Indyben. „
Willelmus Webbere. „ Johannes Vynte.
Ricardus Campaignoun. ,, Thomas Gilbert.
Gilbertus Barfot. ,, Ricardus le Zyngge.
Willelmus Cok. ,, Johannes Colisson.
Johannes de Eston. Johannes Huntyngfeld.
Walterus Wytnesham. Nicholaus Lacy.
Thomas Payn. Juratus. Johannes Priour.
Johannes Wysman. ,, Thomas Sothewynd.
Edmundus Graunt. ,, Henricus le Desing.
Johannes Beverle.

(Antient Indictments 128. Suffolk.)
Suffolk. Hundred of Stowe.
Juratores presentant quod Johannes Barbour de Huntyndon
decollates
Johannes atte Cros de Shellond Galfridus Taillor de Drenkeston
congregatores sustentores et manutentores tempore levationis
de villa ad villam in hundredo de Stowe modo guerino et
contra dignitatem corone domini Regis venerunt felonice et
fraudulenter in villa de Eldeneuton videlicet die sabbati proxima
post festum corporis Christi anno regni regis Ricardi seeundi

APPENDIX II. 129
post conquestum quarto et ibidem clausum et domos Willelmi
Berard apud Eldeneuton felonice et proditiose fregerunt et
intraverunt cum multis aliis ignotis et ibidem vaccas bidentes
lanam bladum brasium ac alia bona et catalla ad valenciam x. li
depredaverunt et asportaverunt.
Item dicunt quod Johannes Wrau capellanus Galfridus
Parfay vicarius ecclesie omnium sanctorum de Sudbury et Adam
Bray Barkere de Sudbury fuerunt capitales congregatores
sustentores et manutentores felonice et proditiose tempore
levationis et contra dignitatem domini Regis in hundredo de
Stowe etc. sic a villa de Sudbury usque villam de Thetford et
alibi in diversis locis in Com. Suff.
[Names of Jury Men.]
'Radulphus Clement. Juratus. [armiger. Stow-
Capilales market]
Constabtdarii j Rogerus Apelthweyt. Juratus. [agricola. Old
I Newton]
Rogerus Scales, [armiger. Wetherden]
Adam Frend. Juratus.
Johannes Sorrell. [agricola. Grt. Finborough]
Johannes Motoun. [agricola. Wetherden]
Robertus Frend. [pistor. Stowmarket]
Willelmus Langlyf. Juratus. [artifex. Stowmarket]
Johannes Gardener. Juratus. [cultor. Combes]
Willelmus Banyngham. Juratus. [agricola. Wetherden]
Willelmus de Eston. Jttratus. [Combes]
Gilbertus Iryng. Juratus.
Willelmus Glaunvill. Juratus. [Thorney]
Johannes Westbronn. Juratus. [agricola. Wetherden]
Johannes Hamond. Juratus. [Dagworth ?]
Willelmus Crane. Juratus. [artifex. Stowmarket]
Johannes Goldyng. Juratus.
Willelmus Fenkele.
Galfridus Cook, [carnifex. Gipping Newton]
Johannes Kyng. Juratus. [carpenter. Gipping Newton]
Jurati super legianciam et recognitiones quod tenentur
domino regi in lx. li. quas vicecomes levabit de terris et catallis
etc  si etc.
N.B. the descriptions in brackets are added from the Poll
Tax returns. 9

130 INDICTMENTS.

(Antient Indictments 128. Suffolk.)
Hoxne. Juratores presentant quod Willelmus Assh soutere
de Hoxne fuit capitalis congregator sustentor et manutentor
tempore levationis falso et proditiose et contra dignitatem corone
domini Regis in Hundredis de Hoxne Blythyng et Waynford fecit
di versos homines sibi et sociis suis falso et proditiose jurare
predicto tempore levationis.
Item dicunt quod Jacobus de Bedyngfeld et Willelmus Aired
de Soham monachorum capitales congregatores tempore levationis
modo guerrino felonice intraverunt et fregerunt clausum et
domos Edmundi lakynghithe apud Geselyngham cum multis aliis
ignotis videlicet die dominica proxima post festum sancti Barnabe
apostoli anno regni Regis Ricardi post conquestum quarto
[16 June 1381] et ibidem decern vaccas cum uno tauro ollas eneas
et patellas pannos lineos et laneas ac alia bona et catalla ad
valenciam x. li. felonice depredaverunt et asportaverunt de
prefato Edmundo de Lakynghithe apud Geselyngham.
Item dicunt quod Johannes filius Galfridi Barat de Cratfield
unus congregator tempore levationis modo guerrino et contra
dignitatem corone domini Regis felonice venit in villam de
Fresyngfeld ad domum Ricardi Suklyng et ibidem felonice
intravit videlicet die martis proxima post1 festum nativitatis
Johannis Baptiste anno quarto supradicto [18 June 1381] et
ibidem minavit prefatum Ricardum Suklyng de vita et membris
quousque predictus Ricardus fecit finem cum prefato Johanne
filio Galfridi Barat de iij. li. vj. s. viij. d. quosquidem iij. li. vj. s.
viij. d. predictus Ricardus sibi liberavit pro timore mortis et
dictus Johannes filius Galfridi Barat felonice asportavit.
Item dicunt quod pz-edictus Jacobus de Bedyngfeld capitalis
congregator tempore levationis modo guerrino in villa de
Denyngton cum multis aliis ignotis viz. die sabbati proxima post
festum sancti Barnabe apostoli anno supradicto [15 June 1381]
[venit] ad domum Willelmi Rous capitalis constabularii Hundredi
de Hoxne et ibidem precepit prefato Willelmo Rous sub pena
decollationis capitis sui ad liberandum sibi et sociis suis decern
sagittarios dicti hundredi predictus Willelmus sibi liberavit
decern sagittarios de predicto hundredo pro timore mortis
1 Probably Ave ought to have 'ante' here instead of 'post,' in which case aymo
quarto would be right, otherwise it should be quinto.

APPENDIX II. 131
capiendi per diem quilibet eorum sex denarios per preceptum
dicti Jacobi. Hoxne. Juratores pro Rege.
Benedictus de Redvng. Juratus.)
Willelmus Rous. ' ) Gajntales Constabularii.
Adam Goode. Juratus. Ricardus Smytli de Mendham.
Elias de Wirlyngworthe. Jit- Juratus.
ratus. Thomas Calwere.
Thomas Bronger. Juratus. Willelmus Anneys.
Johannes Boteler. Juratus. Ricardus Cullyng.
Robertus Barker. Juratus. Willelmus Sulman.
Willelmus Hynks. Juratus. Johannes Page.
Thomas Wolrich. Jurahis. Johannes Smyth de Stradbrok.
Willelmus le Doo. Juratus. Juratus.
Willelmus Hobert. Simon Folcreed.
Ricardus Cook. Willelmus Child. Juratus.

(Antient Indictments 128. Norfolk.)
West Fleg.
Inquisitio capta apud Hornyng die Martis proxima post
festum translationis sancti Thome Martyris anno regni Regis
Ricardi seeundi post conquestum quinto [9 July 1381] coram
Willelmo de Uffbrd comite Suffolcie et sociis suis Justiciariis
domini Regis etc. per Johannem de Pykeryng Johannem Michel
Thomam Isbel Willelmum Gunyld Godfredum de Pykeryng
Johannem Dawes Johannem Cole Johannem Harald Johannem
de Ryssengles Johannem de Helleslee Thomam Jerveys et
Robertum Bataille qui dicunt super sacramentum suum
quod Ricardus Philymond de Buxton Johannes Gentelombe
Johannes Bettes de North Walsham fuerunt capitales ductores
populi contra pacem domini Regis injuste levati apud Billokby et
Castre in Fleg viz. die Martis proxima post festum sancti
Botulphi anno regni Regis Ricardi seeundi post conquestum
quarto [18 June 1381] et sic de villa in villam in prejudicium
corone domini Regis et perturbationem pacis contra procla-
mationem et defensionem dicti domini Regis.
Item dicunt quod Johannes atte Chaumbre de Heigham
Poltere die lune in festo sancti Botulphi anno quarto supradicto
9—2

132 INDICTMENTS.
[17 June 1381] apud Norvicum felonice interfecit Reginaldum de
Eccles. Item dicunt quod Robertus Strongehobbe quondam serviens
Johannis filii Alexandri Fastolf fuit capitalis ductor populi
contra pacem et in prejudicium corone domini Regis injuste
levati et idem Robertus simul cum aliis quam pluribus male-
factoribus ignotis vi et armis et modo guerrino venit apud Castre
in Fleg die martis proxima post festum Sancti Botulphi anno
quarto supradicto [18 June 1381] et ibidem domes Johannis filii
Alexandri Fastolf felonice fregit et prostravit nee non bona et
catalla dicti Johannis ad valentiam viginti Kbrarum ibidem in-
venta felonice furatus fuit et asportavit.
Item dicunt quod Henricus Roys de Dilham Adam Pulter
decollates
alias vocatus Adam Martyn simul cum aliis malefactoribus
ignotis die lune in festo sancti Botulphi anno quarto supradicto
[17 June 1381] apud Mushold juxta hospitale sancte Marie
Magdalene felonice interfecerunt et decollaverunt Robertum de
Salle Militem Afiirmantes  se habere et habuisse regale pre-
eeptum in premissis Datum de loco et anno supradictis.
(Antient Indictments 128. Norfolk.)
Mitfoed Hundred.
Juratores presentant quod Rogerus Bacon Miles Thomas
filius domini Thome de Gyssyngge militis Johannes Chacchevache
qui se facit vocari Johannes de Monnteney de Bokenham et
Galfridus Listere de Felmynham erant capitales illorum qui
contra coronam et dignitatem domini Regis se elevaverunt in
Comitatu Norff. coligentes sibi diversas conventiculas in de-
predacionem multorum  et occisionem diversorum hominum
quorum nomina ignorantur contra coronam domini Regis etc.
Et quod die lune proxima ante festum Nativitatis sancti
Johannis Bapt. anno regni regis Ricardi seeundi a conquestu
quarto [17 June 1381] Johannes filius Philippi de Carleton venit
apud Mateshale vi et armis et contra pacem domini regis simul
cum aliis multis ignotis et fecit Ricardum vicarium ecclesie
predicte finem facere ad dimidiam marcam et plus ad procura
tionem Johannis Ladde.
Et. quod idem Johannes filius Philippi die predicto venit vi
et armis et contra pacem ad domum Thome de Bumstede in

APPENDIX II. 133
Mateshale cum aliis ignotis et ilium quesierunt et minaverunt
de vita et membris ita quod domum suam reliquit per v dies et
amplius. Et quod Andreas Ballivus de Brigham Rogerus Bole et
Thomas de Blofeld cum aliis ignotis venerunt vi et armis et
contra pacem etc., et domum ipsius Thome de Bumstede apud
Mateshale intraverunt et ilium quesierunt et minaverunt dc
vita et membris Ita quod domum suam reliquit etc. quousque
alii pro eo tinem fecerunt de xl. d.
Et quod Thomas de Newelle de Craneworth depredavit de
bonis et catallis Johannis de Herlyngg ad valenciam dimidie
marce. Et quod idem Thomas de Newelle depredavit bona et catalla
domini Thome Clog ad valenciam dimidie marce.
Et quod idem Thomas de Newelle depredavit bona et catalla
Adam Galyon ad valenciam dimidie marce.

Villata de Estderham. Mitfokd.
Juratores presentant quod Johannes de Carleton venit apud
Mateshale die lune proxima ante festum Nativitatis S. Johannis
Bapt. anno regni Regis nunc quinto [17 June 1381] cum aliis
ignotis et in Ricardum vicarium ecclesie de Mateshale insultum
fecere de vita et membro et ceperunt de predicto Ricardo vj. s.
viij. d.
Item dicunt quod Thomas de Monteney Edmundus de
Southous et Ricardus de Southous venerunt apud Hoo die
mercurii proxima ante festum Nativitatis Johannis Bapt. anno
supradicto per requestum Galfridi Dedmor et Willelmum Drake
minaverunt per quod pro timore predictus Willelmus weynavit
unum messuagium et octodecem acras terre ad opus Galfridi
Dedmor. Item dicunt quod quidam Martinus Mannyngh ruanens in
Sudburi misit htteras die et anno supra dictis apud Estderham
per Robertum Agge de Yaxham et Johannem Brung seuiorem de
Estderham ad Johannem de Longcham Willelmum Ibry et
Rodoland Lucas de eadem ex parte Johannis Wraw ut redderent
quoddam librum tenementum predicto Martino quequideni litere
sunt in villa iita quiquidem Robertus et Johannes cognoverunt
quod fuerunt ubi Thomas atte Ook occisus fuit.
Item dicunt quod Willelmus Smyth ruanens in Estderham et

134 INDICTMENTS.
Willelmus Padinak iverunt per patriam et obviaverunt cum
magna societate et jurati fuerunt per societatem qui quidem
Willelmus Smyth venit ad constabularios de Derham mandando
eis ut deliberarent prisones gaole ut juratus fuit sed nihil ad hoc
fecit et sic per consilium constabulariorum sessavit et postea per
ballivos domini arestatus fuit causa predicta et est in custodia
ballivi hundredi.
Item dicunt quod Hugo Bucher dc Caston Johannes Milicent
firmavius de Wokilwode Johannes Creyk de Wymondham
Willelmus Draper de Lyng fuerunt cum societate in diversis
locis asportando catalla diversorum hominum et emerunt catalla
per concordiam.
Item dicunt quod Andreas ballivus domini Episcopi Eliensis
apud Brigham fuit communis malefactor in diversis locis in
societate predicta asportando catalla diversorum hominum vide
licet apud Herlyngh et apud Keniston de bonis Thome Clog
capellani et aliorum diversorum hominum.
[Names of Jury Men.]
Henricus Blowere. Juratus. Galfridus Colle. Juratus.
Laurencius Gybou. „ Philipum Ta37lor.
Robertus Noon. „ Galfridus Qwenel. Juratus.
Ricardus Pers. Rogerus Batalye.
Johannes de Massyngliam. Ricardus filius Johannis.
Edmundus Pers. Juratus. Johannes Demanye.
Thomas Dyx. „ Galfridus Norys.
Johannes Noon. „ Nicholaus Atte hooe.
Robertus Flory. „ Stephanus Ingrode.
Johannes de Tever- Willelmus Smyth Lokmakere.
sham. „ Ricardus Maynere. Juratus.
Edmundus Aquilc. „ Robertus Stampyn.
Johannes Palmere. „ xij Jurati.

(Antient Indictments 128. Norfolk.)
Smeth.
Inquisitio capta apud Estrudham die lune proxima ante
festum sancte Margarete Virginis anno regni Regis Ricardi
seeundi post Conquestum quinto [15 July 1381] per sacramentum
Simonis Roberdeson Thome Burgeys Henrici Baylye de Braun-

APPENDIX IP. 135
cestre Johannis de Walpool Roberti Rust de Sharnebourne
Ricardi Aleyne^on Johannis Smyth de Holm Henrici Smyth
de Brettham Nicolai de Chosele Galfridi Reyner Johannis de
Stone AViUelmi de Dockyng qui dicunt super sacramentum
decollates
suum quod Robertus Fletcher manens in Hunstanton cum
aliis ignotis venit usque Hecham cum arcubus sagittis et aliis
armaturis et incitavit homines de Hecham ad surgendum in hoc
l-umore contra pacem domini Regis maledicendo venerabilem
patrem nostrum dominum Henricum Episcopum Norvicensem eo
quod cquitavit in patria ad castigandum malefactores in malum
exemplum comunitatis totius patrie xh. die lune proxima
preterita [8 July 1381].
Et quod Johannes Spanye de Lena Episcopi cordewaner die
lune proxima post octavani sancte Trinitatis ultimam preteritam
[17 June 1381] tempore hujus rumoris principalis ductor et
manutentor malefactorum surgentium in patria venit usque
Snetesham vi et armis cum xxx. nominibus ignotis et incitavit
homines dicte ville ad surgendum contra pacem domini Regis ad
querendum homines patrie de Flaundres ad eos occidendos et
decapitandos et minavit Radulfum Pan ton ad eum occidendum
per quod idem Radulfus desperans de vita et membris suis in-
venit plegium ad solvendum cuidam sei-vienti dicti Johannis x. s.
contra leges et pacem domini Regis.
Et quod Rogerus Loksmyth manens in Snetisham die martis
proxima post octavam sancte Trinitatis ultimam preteritam
[18 June 13s 1] principalis malefactor et manutentor male
factorum tempore hujus rumoris insultum fecit Simoni Wylymot
apud Snetesharn vi et armis et eum vulneravit cum j. dagger in
humero suo petendo ab eodem Simone xv. quarteria iiij. busellos
brasii et eum minando quod nisi vellet ei dare dictum brasium
quod adduceret quandam congregationem malefactorum patrie ad
hospitium dicti Simonis ad spoliandum dictum Simonem de bonis
et catallis sui; per quod clictus Simon desperans de vita sua
liberavit ei dictum brasium. Et quod die Martis proxima ante
festum Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste ultimum preteritum
[18 June 1381] viz. tempore hujus rumoris quidam Thomas
Kenman manens in Holm juxta mare incitavit procuravit et
congregavit dirersos homines patrie ad navigandum cum eo in
quadam batella in mari ad arestandum Edmundum Gurnay et
Johannem de Holkam in mari navigantes et illos ibidem

136 INDICTMENTS.
arestavere et fugavere usque Holmbulke per quod iidem Ed
mundus et Johannes desperantes de vita et de membris suis
fugavere noctanter in salvatione vite eorum1.
Item dicunt quod Johannes filius AViUelmi Rychond de
AAralton apud Depdale die sabbati proxima post festum Corporis
Christi anno regni Regis nunc quarto [15 June 1381] fecit
quandam generalem proclamationem contra coronam domini Regis
viz. quod si quis potuisset cepisse Edmundum Gurnay et
Johannem de Holkam pro stipendio suo haberet xx. s. ac
AVillehuum Dauntrc servientem dicti Edmundi de xx. s. in
pecunia numerata felonice dispoliavit dicens quod predicti
Edmundus et Johannes fuerunt proditores ac populi domini
Regis communes depopulatores etc.
[Assize Roll 103. m. 4. Cambridgeshire.]
HUNDREDUM DE ARNYNGFORD & StOWE.
Item xij Jurati ibidem dicunt quod AVillelmus A'icory de
Lynton & Johannis AVebbe de Pampeswurth [sunt] felones associati
cum Johanne Hanchach capitali ductore et Johanne Peper. Et
quod ipsi die Sabbati proxima post festum Corporis Christi anno
domini Regis nunc quarto [15 June 1381] fuerunt preceptores ad
prosternendos domos Thome Haselden et venditores bonorum
et catallorum dicti Thome ibidem et publice proclamari fecerunt
tales oppresiones arsuras et proditiones silicet septies in die vel
pluries in prejudicium domini Regis. Et sciendum est quod
predictus AVillelmus A7icory alias se reddidit prisone occasione
felonie super eum existentis. Et remanet sub custodia vicecomitis.
Et quod dictus Johannes AVebbe. die et anno predictis apud
manerium Thome Haselden in Stepcl morden simul cum aliis
felonibus ibidem minatus fuit diversos fidcles liomines de vita et
membris pro eo quod noluerunt auxiliare ad prosternendos domos
et edificia dicti Thome et ad alias felonias faciendas ibidem et
hoc ex mera voluntate sua. Et quod idem Johannes AVebbe
ibidem vendidit unam tassam pisarum predicti Thome pro lx.s.
1 The Jury of Galhowe and Brothercross state that Kenmau with others " apnd
Holm prosequehatur Edmundum Gurney et Johannem Holkam . . . et abinde
usque in mari per xx leucas cum quadam batella in inaxiniuni aft'raiamentnm
predictorum Edmundi et Johannis . . . et sic predictos Edmundum et Johannem
fugavit usque portuni de Brunham."

APPENDIX II. 137
unde cepit in partem solutionis xij.d. de Thoma North in presencia
Johannis Martyn de Lityngton Thome Birton et aliorum fide-
dignorum qui venerunt coram prefatis assignatis et jurati sunt et
diligenter examinati super premissis qui ea sic esse plene testan-
tur. Et predictus Johannes AVebbe alias captus [est] per Johannem
Dengayn militem et AVillelmum de Notton pro suspectione mali
ut testantur. Et super hoc predictus Johannes venit et de pre
missis allocutus est qui ea non dcdicit. Ideo per discretionem
dictorum assignatorum decollatus est. Et preceptum est vice-
comiti quod diligenter inquii-at de terris et tenementis bonis et
catallis predicti Johannis ut ea in manu regis seisire faciat et
domino regi inde respondere distincte et aperte etc.
[Ibid. 103. m. 4.]
Item dicunt quod Galfridus Cobbe cum aliis subditis suis
ignotis felonice et tanquam proditores intraverunt maneria
Thome Haselden apud Geldenmordon et Stepelmordon silicet die
sabbati proxima post festum corporis Christi anno domini regis
nunc quarto et ibidem proclamaverunt publice fingentes se habere
commissioner!! domini regis ad plura malefacta facienda ubi
nullum habuerunt. Et vendiderunt ibidem civ quarteria brasii
vj quarteria vij bussellos pisarum v quarteria ij bussellos dragii
predicti Thome. [Assize Roll 103. m. 3.]
Hundredum de AVitlesford.
Item Jurati dicunt quod Johannes Hanchach [de Shudycamps ']
fuit capitalis ductor malefactorum. Et quod ipse cum societate sua
et potestate congregata de hominibus ignotis die Sabbati proxima
post festum corporis Christi anno domini Regis nunc quarto [15
June 1381] prostravit domos Prioris Hospitalis sancti Johannis
in Dokeswurth et diversa bona et catalla ibidem inventa ad
valentiam xx.li. Ricardi Maisterman firmarii ibidem cepit et
asportavit felonice in prejudicium Regis. Et per diversas inquisi-
tiones divez-sorum hundredorum captas compertum est quod idem
Johannes Hanchach fuit toto tempore perturbacionis equitans cum
potestate vi armata sibi congregata de pluribus comitatibus. Et
quod ipse fuit preceptor et ductor ad maneria Thome Haselden
1 Thus described in another place on this Roll.

138 INDICTMENTS.
AA7illelmi Bateman Hospitalis de Shengeye Edmundi AValsyngham
Thome Torell Rogeri Harlaston et Johannis Blauncpayn in
Cantebriggia et ad alia furta prosternationes domoruni et arsuras
infra dictum comitatum in prejudicium Regis et magnam pertur-
bationem populi. [The skin here is damaged and torn but enough
of the document remains to show that Hanchach was beheaded "jier
discrelionem, Hugonis le Zouch."~\

EXTRACTS FROM COTTONIAN MSS. IN
BRITISH MUSEUM.
Claudius A. XII. fol. 128 b.
In die igitur sancti Dionisii, qui tunc dies fuit dominicus, in
domo capitulari et tempore capitulari coram Priore, uuus de com-
plicibus provisoris, extrahens de sinu suo quasdam copias bullarum,
incepit eas perlegere. Prior vero predictus attendens ad solemp-
nitatem diei et ad prolixitatem copiarum, quarum diligens
inspectio divinum servicium retardasset, rogavit eum cum magna
instancia ut sibi predictas copias traderet post divinum servicium
ab ipso diligenter perlegendas. Quo denegante cum aliis compli-
cibus, surgens predictus Prior ad celebrandum divinum officium
quamtocieus properabat. Surrexerunt et complices provisoris, ut
dicebatur, accincti longis cultellis, id est baselards, cum maximo
strepitu et tumultu, quorum unus manus suas sacrilegas cum
violentia posuit in Priorem, non solum ei conviciaudo sed graviter
comminando; et alii etiam vultum valde protervum suis fratribus
ostendebant, in tantum quod Prior et qui steterunt pro parte
electi de mortis periculo timuerunt. Post capitulum vero predicti
fautores, nee petita licencia nee obtenta, exierunt suum claustrum
transeuntes ad ecclesias parochiales ubi fuerat maxima niultitudo
populi congregata, quibus dixerunt voce publica licet falsa, quod
predictus Prior, et qui fuerunt cum eo, voluerunt eos in domo
capitulari crudeliter occidisse. Plures etiam injurias esse eis
illatas per Priorem et alios confratres mendaciter retulerunt. Sic
que populus, per falsam suggestionem eorum quasi ad miseri-
cordiam inclinatus, promisit eis prebere in omnibus suis agendis
auxilium et favorem. Ipsos ergo ab ecclesiis parochialibus in
monasterium sequebatur populus cum magno strepitu et tumultu,
ubi ad magnum altare post evangelium, perturbatis ultra modum
ministris, copias bullarum publice perlegerunt.

APPENDIX II. 139

Claudius A. XII. fol. 131b.

a

Eodem anno, id est tercio a principio vacacionis, ante festum
sancti Johannis baptiste bene per decern dies, sumpta occasione
de quadam taxa onerosa regno, videlicet duodecem denarii de
capite ab anno etatis quintodecimo et supra, surrexit comitiva
maledicta villanorum ruralium et rusticorum de orientali plaga
anglie, id est de Cancia Essexia Suffolchia Norfolchia et de comi-
tatibus Cautabriggie et hcrfordie, qui regis consilium jurisperitos
generosos et potentes in regno extinguere cogitabant. Extraxerunt
enim de turri london, rege ibi presente, archiepiscopum Cantuarie
tunc temporis cancellarium Anglie, magistrum hospitalis sancti
Johannis militem thesaurarium Anglie et eos decapitaverunt super
unum moncium prope turrim. Alios eciam quam plures et precipue
de Flandrensibus crudeliter necaverunt, mansum valde solempne
vocatum Saveye, quod fuit ducis lancastrie, et hospitale sancti
Johannis immanissime cremaverunt, et sicut ipsi londonie qui pro
majori parte fuerunt de Cancia, ita alii quasi eodem tempore in
predictis comitatibus surrexerunt et mala consimilia perfecerunt.
Eodem tempore in comitatu Suifolchie surrexit comitiva omni
bellua crudelior, que, instigata per homines de Bury, Priorem
conventum et monasterium sancti Edmimdi destruere propone-
bant. De hoc nephando proposito audiens Prior fugit de nocte
ad villam de Mildenhale, ubi in domo cujusdam fidelis servientis
monasterii per diem naturalem latuit in occulto. Sed undique
insurgentibus hominibus maleficis cognovit se non posse diucius
ibi latere. Consurgens igitur de nocte temptavit per naviculam ad
eliense monasterium transfretasse, sed cum ad naviculam pervenis-
set, invenit ibi plures malefactores congregatos qui eum naviculam
ascendere nullatenus permittebant, sed in eum frementes, tan
quam homines furiosi, vis manus suas ab ictu gladii retraxerunt.
(fol. 132) Tandem tamen in maxima difficultate fuit dimissus ab
eis. Statim enim post, consilio infortunato disposuit se ire versus
comitatum Cantabrigie, uno tantum comite ductore vel si dicam
verius proditore, sed antequam potuit pertransire tei-minos ville
de Mildenhale, bis vel ter captus fuit et detentus ab hominibus
ville illius a quibus, diversis lacessitus injuriis, mortis periculum
vix evasit. Tandemque cum suo ductore devenit ad quandam
silvam in comitatu Cantabrigie, distantem a novo mercato quasi
per tria miliaria, in qua silva latuit nimium timorosus. Ductor
vero suus, vel si verius dicam proditor, simulans se velle querere

140 INDICTMENTS.
necessaria ad sustentationem sue vite, rediit ad villam de Milden
hale ubi invenit quam plures de villa de Bury querentes Priorem
ut mortis supplicio plecteretur. Quibus ipse proditor detexit
omnia secreta Prioris et locum in quo eum poterant reperire.
Quibusdam ergo illorum circumdantibus silvam per girum,' alii
intrabant voce furibunda clamantes " ubi latitat proditor, ubi
latitat proditor." Quern appiehensum et quam plurimis injuriis
lacessitum perduxerunt ad novum mercatum, ubi per noctem se-
quentem obprobriis et conviciis illudebant, quandoque enim coram
ipso genuflectebant dicentes " ave raby," quandoque ei ciphum
sine poculo propiriabant, quandoque alapis eum cedentes dixerunt
" prophetiza quis est qui percussit te." Sic que per totum noctis
spacium fremebant et stridebant dentibus super eum, sicut in
nocte cene judea gens perfida fecerat super Christum. Mane
auteni facto, predicti homines de Bury adduxerunt Priorem ad
villam de Mildenhale, ubi ad eos confluebant maxima populi mul
titude, qui omnes pro majori parte ei consimiliter illudebant
clamantes et dicentes " occidatur proditor, proditor occidatur."
Extrahens ergo eum de villa per spacium unius stadii, feceruut eum
descendere de equo super quern resedit et inito consilio seorsum
a turba quorundam hominum de villa sancti Edmundi decretum
finale populus expectabat, qui eum adjudicantes morti eum decapi-
tandum cum populo clamitabant. Quesitus ergo spiculator, qui,
facta per prius confessione a Priori cuidam sacerdoti de Milden
hale diutina et morosa, eum decapitavit gladii uno ictu. Cujus
corpus truncatum inhumatum jacuit in eodem loco ab hora sexta
diei sabbati usque ad crepusculum ferie quinte proxime tunc
sequente. (fol. 132 b) Non enim ausus fuit conventus sepelire
ejus corpus propter metum hominum de Bury, qui tarn ipsum
quam eos tunc summo odio habuerunt. Et quod mirum est dictu,
toto illo tempore predictum corpus nee factum fuit a canibus aut
avibus, nee fetebat calore tunc nimium estuante, ubi alia corpora
tunc occisa non poterant per unius diei spacium a fetere canibus
et avibus preservari.
Facta capitis detruncacione statim illud in summitate lancee
asportantes usque villam sancti Edmundi quam tocius properabant,
et precurrente rumori volatili totus populus ville tam hominum
quam mulierum ad tam horrendum spectaculmn cum festinacione
maxima concurrebant latrantes inter se invicem et dicentes "Ecce
caput proditoris, ecce caput proditoris," " Felix sit iste dies in quo
nostrum desiderium vidimus adimpletum " ululantes taliter et

APPENDIX II. 141
tumultum horribilem facientes, precedentibus buccinis, caput
super collistrigium adduxerunt. In quo collistrigio appensum fuit
super lanceolam caput principalis Justiciarii Anglie, qui in nocte
precedente decapitatus fuit apud villam de Lakyngheth, qui fuit
predicto Priori et ecclesie sancti Edmundi amicus fidelissimus, et
propter hoc ut conviciebatur veresimili conjectura, mortis suppli-
cium passus fuit. Capitibus igitur illudentes caput Prioris
applicuerunt ad caput Justiciarii nunc ad auriculam quasi con-
sihum postuhmdo, nunc ad os ejus quasi amicicias ostendendo,
volentes pro hoc eis improperare de amiciciis et consiliis que inter
se invicem vita comite habuerant. Postouam vero propria illu-
sione fuerant lacessiti, caput Prioris super collistrigium dimise-
runt, que capita cum aliis de quibus dicetur, super collistrigium
remanserunt quousque comes Suffolchie, bene postocto dies postea,
missus fuit a rege cum quingentis lanceis ad compescendum
malificos et rebelles. Suspenso enim capite Prioris in collistrigio,
tota ilia maledicta comitiva venit in monasterium nominans
quosdam confratres, quorum unum pre ceteris petierunt, videlicet
Walterum Totyngdon, quern cum invenire non poterant, petierunt
alium, videlicet custodem baronie, qui licet eorum mantis potuit
aflugisse, noluit tamen, asserens se non posse pociori causa occum-
bere quam pro jure sue ecclesie, quam semper pro viribus defen-
sabat, ideo velle pro ea mortis supplicium expectare si funesta
maims exigeret hoc ab eo. (fol. 133) Quidam igitur de villa, eum
niraium odientes, simulantes se esse mundos a sanguine ejus,
procurabant malificos de patria ut eum caperent tenerent et
occiderent. Qui cum advenirent in claustro suo ubi fuerat
constitutus clamabant "ubi est ille proditor,7' quibus ipse respondit
" Non sum ego proditor, si tamen vultis me habere eccme presens
asto " ; clamantes igitur "invenimus proditorem" extraxerunt eum
de claustro et perduxerunt ad medium fori, et ducentes eum per
viam traxerunt eum hinc inde et non solum eum alapis ceciderunt
sed ei plura mortis vulnera intulerunt, ita quod fuit quasi exanimis
antequam ad locum predictum devenit ; in quo spiculator sepcies
eum percussit priusquam amputare potuit ejus caput, quod cum
aliis capitibus super collistrigium posuerunt. Quo facto, venit
tota ilia maledicta comitiva usque monasterium pro aliis duobus
fratribus ut eos consimiliter jugularent, et cognito ab illis fratribus
quod pro illis venirent, preparaverunt se ad mortem, et valefacien-
tes fratribus suis et tradentes suas zonas et cultellos infirmario,
secundum morem morientium, porrexerunt ad sanctum Edmun-

142 INDICTMENTS.
dum ab eo licentiam capientes et deo et sibi suas animas com-
mendantes. Quo facto, per tres horas et aniplius coram magno
altari sue mortis executores tremuli expectabant. Sed mirabile
coutigit, dum fuerunt in via ad predictum flagitium perpetrandum
rumor volavit quod alius frater monasterii, quem summo odio
habuerunt et quesierant perprius, apud Rougham secrecius lati-
tabat. Quo audito, unanimiter conclamant " queramus prodi-
torem, queramus proditorem." Et cum essent extra portam
orientalem in itinere usque Rougham, respicientes a tergo viderunt
unum stantem in campanili superius, et estimantes ilium esse
quem querebant, ad monasterium redierunt, et intrantes ecclesiam
transierunt per medium presbiterii usque campanile. Quo tem
pore et post quam diu fuerunt in ecclesia, steterunt predicti duo
f ratres coram magno altari mortis supplicium expectantes. Sed ipsi
tam furioso annisu estuabant ad querendum alium, quod obliti
sunt illorum, et dei clemencia non humana industria manus
sacrilegas evaserunt. In crastino, id est die doininico, quendam
valentem de patria, eo quod amicus fuit ecclesie, occiderunt et ejus
caput super collistrigium suspenderunt. Eodem die venerunt
(fol. 133 b) homines de villa in monasterium cum maximo strepitu
et tumultu petentes sibi reddi cartas et munimenta que eorum
commoditates aut privilegia concernebant, addentes quod nisi hoc
facerent festinanter, tota maledicta comitiva rediret, monachos
occideret et monasterium extirparet. Monachi igitur metu mortis
ducti, scrutatis evidenciis, cartas et munimenta ad aulam gilde
illorum in crastino detulerunt • presentibus ibi aldermanno major-
ibus ville et similiter tota multitudine villanorum. Que postquam
receperint petierunt a Suppriori tunc temporis presidenti, a sacrista
et aliis confratribus ibi existentibus scripta fieri quorum sententia
talis foret, videlicet, cum provisor gauderet sua abbatia, tunc
conventus cum ipso concederent eis, non solum libertates antiquas,
sed eciam novas quas ipsi in posterum petere decrevissent, ad
dentes quod vellent habere nobiliora jocalia monasterii in sua
custodia quousque predicta condieio impleretur. Quod si ipsam
impleri non contingeret, contradicente conventu, de predictis
jocalibus suam facerent voluntatem. Frater vero provisoris, qui-
dam dives de villa, obligavit se et omnia bona sua quod provisor
gaudens suo beneficio omnes eorum petitiones perficeret juxta
vota. Conventus igitur necessitate coactus tradidit eorum cus-
todie calicem magnum de auro purissimo, similiter et crucem de
ligno domini auro et gemmis nobiliter decoratam ad valorem ccc

APPENDIX II. 143
marcarum ; hec enim fecerunt eo quod crediderunt provisorem in
proximo suo gaudere beneficio. Sic credere moti erant eo quod
maledicta comitiva de essexia, inter alias suas petitiones, exegit a
rege london quod provisor extraheretur de carcere et sicut abbas
suo monasterio redderetur. Quod rex metu mortis ductus annuit,
sed statim postquam manum superiorem super rebelles obtinuit,
non solum illud verum etiam omnia alia que invitus concesserat,
revocavit. Postea vero predicti homines, suum errorem cognos-
centes et regiam manum timentes, restituerunt monasterio predicta
jocalia in crastino sancti dionisii, cartas et munimenta reduxerunt
ad monasterium statim post natale, licet malivola voluntate.
Postea vero predicta villa, propter suas transgressiones, posita fuit
de consilio totius parliamenti extra proteccionem regio.ni, et con-
dempnata in duobus millibus marcis quarum mille libras rex haberet
pro offensa eorum contra regiam majestatem, et quingentas marcas
ecclesia haberet pro suis injuriis et offensis, ut clare patere poterit
respicere (fol. 134) volenti litteram regis paten tern.
Exchequer Q.R. Inquisitions. In P.R.O.
Series I., file 1167, 4-5 Ric. II.
Inquisitio capta apud Gippewicum viij die Augusti Anno
regni Regis Ricardi seeundi quinto coram AVillelmo Berard
esceatore domini Regis in Comitatu Suffolcie virtute cujusdam
brevis domini Regis eidem Willelmo directi et huic inquisitioni
consuti per sacramentum Johannis Dextero etc. qui dicunt super
sacramentum suum quod Thomas Sampson qui pro quibusdam
proditionibus et feloniis per ipsum contra ligeanciam suam perpe-
tratis morti adjudicatus est habuit die quo dictas proditiones et
felonias fecit bona et catalla in dicto comitatu Suffolcie videlicet
in primis apud Kersey in dicto comitatu.
vj stottos pretium xxx. s.
iiij boves „ xl. .«.
v boviculos „ xv. s.
iij pullanos „ x. s.
viij porcellos ,, viij. s.
xx ancas ,, iij. s. iiij. d.
ij quarteria frumenti in granario „ x. s.
ij ,, brasii „ viij. s.
xvj acras frumenti „ xl. s.

144 INQUISITION.
viij acras drageti pretivm xj. s. viij. d.
xxiiij acras pisi et avene - „ xxxij. s.
ij carectatas feni ,, iiij. s.
j tumbrellum cum j cartebonke „ ij. s.
vetus meremium „ ij. s.
Item dicunt quod idem Thomas habuit eodem die apud Her-
kested in eodem comitatu.
In camera sua iij lectos cum Hntlii-l . ,  ,
. ., ... .. 1 prehum Inj. s. 1111. a.
ammibus et aliis necessarns J
ij peluvia cum lavatore „
iij ollas eneas et alia vasa enea ,, xxx. s.
j discum argenti cum vj cocleariisj
argenti ) "
ij mappas cum ij manutergiis „ iij. s. iiij. d.
ij duodena vasa de peutre „ vj. s. viij. d.
ij ollas de peutre ij selers de peutre „ xvj. d.
ij plumba ,, x. s.
vasa utensilia lignea „ vj. s. viij. d.
vj boves ,, lx. s.
viij stottos „ xl. s.
viij vaccas ,, xl. s.
ij tauros „ vj. s. viij. d.
ij boviculos - „ vj. s.
vj vitulos - - „ vj. s.
ccc multones oves matrices et agnos „ xv. li.
vj porcos „ vj. s.
vj ancas - - - „ xij. d.
x capones - „ xx. d.
xviij acras frumenti - „ xlv. s.
xvij „ siliginis ,, xxxiiij. s.
xxiij „ ordei „ Ivij. s. vj. d.
xxvj „ pisi et avene - „ xxxiij. s. viij. d.
viij carectatas feni „ xvj. s.
ij carectas unde j ferri ,, xiij. s. iiij. d.
ij tumbrella ,, iij. s. iiij. d.
ij carucas cum toto apparatu „ ij. s.
Item dicunt quod idem Tliomas habuit eodem die apud
Freston.
iiij stottos - - pretium xx. s.
ij boves - - „ xx. s

APPENDIX II.

145

xv vaccas cum j tauro
c hoggastres
ij acras frumenti
v ,, siliginis
xxij ,, pisi et avene
ij carectatas feni
j carectam debilem
j carucam cum apparatu

pretium iiij. li.

lxxv. s.
v. s.
x. s.
xxix. s. iiij.
iiij. s.
ij. s. vj.

xij. d.

Item dicunt quod idem Thomas habuit eodem die octavam
partem cujusdam navis vocate Waynpayn de Herewich pretium
liij. s. iiij. d.
In cujus rei testimonium huic inquisitioni predicti jurati
sigilla apposuerunt. Datum die et anno supradicto.
Summa particularum de Kersey x. li. xvj. s.
„ ,, Herkested xxxix. li. xvj. s. vj. d.
„ „ Freston xv. li. ij. d.
The Escheator's Roll tells us that the above were held by
"Lora," wife of Thomas Sampson, "ad opus Regis.''

10

GENERAL INDEX.

N.B. Names of Places are in Italics.
The Poll Tax lists are indexed for Surnames only.

Abington, 43
Abot, 93
Achelard, 113
Acke, 83
Adam, 68, 81
Adgor, 95, 100(2), 101(3)
Agge, Bob., 133
Akk, 119
Alayn, 99, 100, 113
Alcombury, 107
Aldech, 116
Alderyd, 98
Aldham, 21
Aleyn, 88, 102, 103
Aleynesson, Ric, 135
Algi, 73
Algood, 87, 88
Alisander, 69, 70
Ally, 86, 87 (2)
Alman, 116(2)
Aired, W., 130
Alston, 69, 70, 112
Alysawe, 77
Amy, 83(2)
Anable, 73(4), 74
Andrew, 80, 81 (2), 107
Andrew, Jo., 45
Andrew, Sim., 45
Anetye, 118
Angold, 73(2), 76
Anneys, W., 131
Antingham, Manor of, 33
Apelthweit, 95 (4)
Apelthweyt, Rog., 129
Aquile, Edna., 134
Archere, 115
Archers, employed in riots, 32,
58
Ariford, 80
Armiger, see Trades and Callings
Arnald, 119(2)
Arnington, 45
Arnold, 95(2), 106

Artificers, 2, 07
Ashfield, 109, 110
Ashfield, Robert de, 64
Aslak, Thos., 30
Asscheman, 77
Assh, W., 130
Astone, Andrew, 8
Atered, 117
Atte Brigge, 73, 88, 97 (3)
Attebrook, Jo., 24
Atte Chaumbre, Jo., 131
Atte Church, 79 (2), 103 (2), 104(2),
108
Atte Church, Thos., 30
Atte Cross, 98, 114, 128
Atte Crouch, 75, 76
Atte Dale, 83
Atte Fen, 73, 91, 92, 98
Atte Ford, 102
Atte Grene, 75, 83, 97, 101, 102
Atte Hach, 83(3)
Atte Hagwe, 108
Atte Hall, 78 (2)
Atte Hawe, 81, 82 (2)
Atte Heath, W., 23
Atte Hell, 81, 82, 84, 98, 113, 118
Atte Heth, 75, 76
Atte Hooe, Nich., 134
Atte Hyll, 81, 84, 93, 97(2), 98,
113, 118, see also Atte Hell
Atte Hyll, Jo., 33
Atte Lee, 98
Attemer, 71
Atte Moor, 84
Atte Ook, Thos., 133
Atte See, 116 (2)
Atte Well, 79 (2)
Atte Wode, 101
Attwyk, Ralph, 14
Aubrey, Jo., 65
Aubry, 69, 77, 89, 110(2)
Aunsel, 88
Aylemer, 92, 118
10—2

148

GENERAL INDEX.

Aylnot, 68
Ayloch, 68(2)
Aylsham, 34
Baa, 103(3)
Babraham, 44(2)
Backe, 99
Bacon, Nich., 62
Bacon, Sir Rog., 3, 26, 28, 30, 32,
33, 132 ; Trial of, 39
Baconsthorpe, 26
Baday, 94
Badele, 90
Badynhale, 102
Bakoun, 109
Baldry, 104(4), 105
Baldwene, 79(2), 111
Balle, Jo., 3, 54, 55
Balsham, 46
Bambonn, 87
Banyngham, 96 (2)
Banyngham, W., 129
Barat, 72, 103, 104, 111
Barat, Geof., 130
Barat, Jo., 130
Barbour, 86, 90
Barbour, Jo., 123
Barbour, Rob., 53
Barbour, Sim., 12
Bardolf, 94
Bare, 76
Bareleg, 78
Barenton, 43
Barfot, Gilb., 128
Barker, 76, 78 (4), 85, 97 (2), 100,
113, 118(2)
Barker, Rob., 131
Barking, 23
Barningham, 37
Barnwell Priory, attack on, 53 ;
Prior of, 53
Baron, 69, 78, 93, 119
Barr, Thos., 46
Barrow, 67
Barton Mills, 38; Court Rolls of,
64
Barwe, 82
Basely, 105(2)
Bassat, 117
Bassingbourn, 44
Bataille, Rob., 131
Batalye, Rog., 134
Bateman, 101
Bateman, W., 45, 138
Batisford, 73
Battisford, Jo., 22, 127
Bauleie, 96 (3)
Bawdsey, 24, 25
Baxtere, 86(3), 104(2), 109, 113
Bayly, 76, 107, 108
Baylye, Hen., 134
Bayn, 111 (2)

Beccles, 24
Beconn, 88
Bedell, W., 51
Bedingfield, Jas. de, 3, 21, 22, 26,
130 (2)
Bedingfield, Sir P. de, 21
Bedoun, 91
Belamy, 83
Bele, 68, 72(2), 112, 118(2)
Belhous, 99
Benacre, 116
Bencold, 118
Benet, 78(2), 87(2), 98, 113
Beneth, 75, 100
Benington, 78
Benne, 105, 106(2)
Bentley, 3, 22, 127
Benton, 111 (2)
Berard, W., 143
Berche, 102
Berd, 82
Bere, 109(2)
Bereiweie, 96 (2)
Berew, 102
Berewyke, 36
Bergholt, 23
Beri, 96
Bernard, 75, 87
Bernard, W., 128
Bernerewe, 71
Berney, Tho., 120
Bemingham, 88
Berton, 85, 87, 88
Bessingham, 37
Bessingham, Jo. de, 37
Be3te, 100
Bethwold, 90
Bette, 107, 111
Bettes, 73, 118(2), 119
Bettes, Hen., 28
Bettes, Jo., 131
Betteson, 104(2), 105
Beverle, Jo., 128
Billokby, 131
Billyngford, 120
Binham, 27, 34, 35
Birton, Thos., 137
Bischop, 114
Bixton, Walt, de, 30
Blackborne, Hundred of, 102
Black Death, effects of, 1, 3, 64,
74
Blake, 95
Blankgren, Ric, 50
Blankgren, Rog., 50
Blankpayn, Jo., 52, 138
Blauncpayn, 103 (2), 104
Blaxhale, 99, 100
Blechepayl, 92
Blek, 83
Blithing, Hundred of, 115
Blofield, Thos. de, 133

GENERAL INDEX.

149

Blok, 77
Blower, 101
Blower, Hen., 134
Bocher, 86, 93
Bogeys, 75, 76(2)
Bokele, 115
Bokelerplayer, Jo., 36
Bokenham, 26, 132
Bol, 102
Boldiro, 96
Bole, 69(2), 70, 96(2), 100(3), 105
Bole, Rog., 133
Bolynge, 116
Bond, 83, 96(4), 116(2)
Bonecold, 103, 113
Boneyr, 112
Bonys, 78(2)
Boor, 94
Borel, 78, 87
Bosard, 111(2)
Bosmere, Hundred of, 23
Boteler, 109, 111
Boteler, Jo., 131
Botonn, 105, 106
Bottisham, 42
Bouel, 95
Bouneud, 83
Boure, 99
Bourgh, Jo. de, 126
Bowel, 113
Boyboy, 105
Boydon, 103
Boydyn, 74 (2), 75, 84
Boyler, 77
Boyo, 90
Boys, 68
Boys, Rog. de, 24
Bradley, 81
Bradwell, 24
Braham, 115
Bramfield, 23
Brandon Ferry, 28
Branncestre, 135
Bras, 108
Brastrete, 91
Bray, Ad., 12, 129
Brecete, 95 (4)
Bregge, 101
Brend, 77(2), 84
Brese, 76, 79 (2)
Brethenham, 80, 86
Brethenham, Clem., 25
Breton, 92, 93, 103
Brettham, 135
Brewes, Jo. de, 31, 38
Brewster, 96, 110
Bricete, 76 (2)
Brid, 87
Brigg, 97
Brigge, atte, 73, 88, 97 (3)
Brigham, 133, 134
Brockley, 67, 71

Brok, 117(4)
Brokleygh, 69, 70(2)
Bron, 99
Bronewyn, 88
Bronger, 131
Broun, 98, 112, 118
Brounfield, Edm., 15, 16, 19, 20
Browe..., 100
Brown, 95
Brownyng, 86, 112 (2)
Browster, 96
Brung, Jo., 133
Brungor, 97(2)
Brustal, 68
Bryd, 109
Brynkele, Jo., 14
Brytbren, 85
Bucher, Hug., 134
Bucklesham, 22
Buk, 79
Buk, Jo., 48
Bulbrok, 84, 85
Bulcamj), 117
Bullok, 76, 80, 82, 83, 87, 88
Bumsted, Thos. de, 132, 133
Bunnynge, 82(2)
Buntyfeld, 83
Buntyng, 106, 119
Burell, W., 120
Burgeys, 105, 108
Burgeys, Thos., 134
Burgh, 119
Burghard, 115
Burkyn, 116
Burnham, 35
Burs, 100
Bunoell, 42, 45
Bury St Edmunds, 7, 11, 34, 57, 127 ;
Alderman of, 127 ; Fined for
Riots, 21, 143 ; Guildhall Meeting
at, 20 ; Riots at, 19
Bury St Edmunds, Abbey of. Al
moner of, 7 ; Attacks on, 16, 19,
141 ; Number of Monks in, 16 ;
Prior of, see Cambridge, Jo. de;
Provisor appointed to, 15 ; Vio
lence in Chapter House, 15, 138
Busch, 112
Busschop, 77
Buttre, 80
Buxhall, 92
Buxlow, 115
Buxton, 27, 131
Byl, 90
Byllyng, 118(2)
Byschop, 117
Cage, 84(4), 85, 111
Caistor, 33
Cake, 87, 88, 97, 102(3)
Cakebred, 93, 103
Cakestrete, 91

150

GENERAL INDEX.

Caketon, 94
Calcher, 86
Calf, 68, 73(2), 102(2), 103
Calfawe, 82
Calle, 68
Calve, 68
Calwere, Tho3., 131
Cambridge, 38, 44; Bridge Street, 55 ;
Carmelite Monastery at, 51 ; Cor
pus Christi Coll. attacked, 51 ;
Estenhall in, 53 ; le Pety Cure
in, 52; Mayor of, 42, 53; Mayor
of, his trial, 53 ; Riots at, 49 ;
St Giles, 50; St Manfs attacked,
51; St Mary's, Chest in, 51, 52
Cambridge University , Chan, of, 14;
Charters of, burnt, 50, 52
Cambridge, Jo. de, 11, 17; his flight,
17, 139 ; murder of, 18, 140
Cambridgeshire, Sheriff of, 44
Campaignoun, Ric, 128
Candlesby, Hug., 52, 53
Canon, 78(2), 93, 94(2)
Canterbury, Archbishop of, murder
ed, 42
Caperoun, 95
Capgrave, Jo., his account of events
in Norfolk, 37 ; his account of
events at Cambridge, 55
Capons, 95
Cappe, 113
Cardinal of St Angelo, 23
Cardoun, 101
Carleton, Ph. de, 132
Carpenter, 76
Carpon, 74
Carrow Priory, 32, 34
Carter, 70, 71, 78, 79, 82, 90, 93,
99, 101, 102, 103, 109, 112
Castel, 86
Castleacre, 31
Caston, 134
Castre, 131
Catelyn, 87
Caunseler, 78, 81(2)
Cavendish, 10, 11, 14
Cavendish, Jo. de, 11, 12, 14, IS;
murder of, 13, 126, 141
Cavenham, 83, 84, 86
Cawynham, 71
Chachevache, Jo., 26, 132
Chadenhalk, 87
Chaloner, 90, 118
Chapeleyn, 72
Chapman, 72, 85 (3), 88, 113 (2),
see Sohapman
Charlys, 93
Chaumber, 114
Chaumbre, Jo. atte, 131
Chauudeler, 90, 113
Chaunteler, 93
Chawseler, 74

Chelisworth, 113
Chene, 99
Chese, 90, 91
Chestey, 81
Chetebere, 78
Chevington, 67, 70
Chief Constable, 21, 33, 131
Child, W., 131
Childerhous, 90, 115
Childreston, 85(3), 86, 87, 88
Childrous, 91
Chippenham, 44
Choke, 78
Chosele, Nic, 135
Christemasse, 82, 100, 106
Church, atte, 30, 79(2), 103(2),
104(2), 108
Church Property, attacks on, 34
Chyld, 71
Chynchere, 112
Cisterne, 117
Clakke, Jo., 16
Clare, 62
Clark, see Clerk
Claver, 85, 106
Claydon, Hundred of, 23
Clement, 72, 76(2), 89, 91, 102(2),
109, 110, 118
Clement, Rad., 129
Clenewall, 77
Cler, 100
Clere, 72, 83
Clere, W., 33
Clericus, 115
Clerk, 75(3), 77, 81, 85(2), 90, 93,
94, 105(2), 106, 111
Clog, Thos., 133, 134
Clubbe, 90
Clubs of Working Classes, 2, 57;
funds of, 65
Clymme, Ad., 49
Clytermere, 104
Cobat, Jo., 22
Cobbe, 92, 94, 98
Cobbe, Geof., 44
Cobbe, W., 44, 47
Cobold, 96
Cock, 112
Codynham, 100
Cok, 113
Cok, W., 128
Coke, 106
Cokedon, 81
Cokeman, 75, 98(2)
Coker, 92
Cokerel, 75, 92, 93, 95, 96 (2),
99, 100
Cokewald, 106
Coldhacle, 90, 100(2)
Cole, 88, 102, 103
Cole, Jo., 131
Cole, — , 60

GENERAL INDEX.

151

Colermaker, 114
Colisson, Jo., 123
Colkyrke, 73
Colle, Geof., 134
Colman, 102, 111
Colman, Thos., 37
Colman, Walt., 19
Colyn, Thos., 36
Combe, W., 46
Combes, 99, 129
Coneynhton, 87
Coo, 91
Cook, 89, 90, 93, 97(5), 102(2),
108, 109
Cook, Geof., 129
Cook, Jo., 32
Cook, Ric, 131
Cook, Simon, 23
Cope, 95
Copinger, 92
Coppedok, 128
Copping, 104(3)
Copping, Hervey, 33
Copping, Jo., 33
Coray, 114
Corby, Rob. de, 42
Cordde, 91, 92
Cordwainer, see Schordwaner
Cornerd, Thos., 3, 12
Cornish, Hen., 36
Corper, 98(2)
Coselere, Walt., 24
Cosford, Hundred of, 111
Costard, 93
Costyn, 87, 88, 111
Cosyn, 119
Cote, 86, 87
Cottenham, 43, 52
Cotton, 86(2), 87(2)
Counte, 96
Couper, 71, 76, 82, 86, 93, 95(3),
107, 113, 118
Couper, W., 32
Court Rolls destroyed, 21, 23, 24,
32, 33, 34, 37. 46, 49, 62
Coventry, 32
Coventry, Jo., 23, 36
Coyfe, 111
Crane, 91(2), 100, 105, 106, 118(2)
Crane, Thos., 128
Crane, W., 129
Craneworth, 133
Cratfield, 130
Crembyl, 112
Cres, 103
Cressener, 69, 70
Cretyng, 94 (2)
Creyk, Jo., 134
Crinyte, 102
Crofford, 116(2)
Cros 92
Cross, atte, 98, 114, 128

Crouch, atte, 75, 76
Crowes, 110
Crows, 109
Croydon, 44
Cubith, see Kybit
Cukhok, 113
Culford, 116
Cullyng, Ric, 131
Culpho, 23
Cur..., 102
Cursun, W., 120
Curteys, Jo., 33
Customs, Manorial, 65
Cut, 116
Cuttyng, 95(2)
Cytlyng, 113
Dagworth, 97, 129
Dale, 83, 100, 107
Dalkys, 99 (2), 100
Dallyng, 116 (2)
Damysfelde, 113
Dane, 76 (2)
Danyel, 82
Dapys, 114
Dasach, 116
Dauntre, W., 136
Dawe, 76
Dawes, 88
Dawes, Jo., 131
Dawys, 102
Daye, 106
Dayoa, 119
Dedmor, 133
Deke, 68
Dekne, 68
Demayne, Jo., 134
Den, 114
Denarstone, 113
Dengayn, Jo., 137
Denham, Geof., 18, 19
Denington, 21
Densi, 96 (3)
Depdale, 136
Dereham, 134
Derhawe, 116 (3)
Desing, Hen., 128
Deth, 84
Dexter, 90, 113
Dexter, Jo., 143
Deye, 68 (2), 71 (2), 75 (2), 79, 81,
84, 90, 100, 103, 115, 117
Deye, Jo., 48
Deynissone, 105
Dicere, 71
Dilliam, 29, 132
Ditton Valence, 44
Dobbys, 113
Dockyng, 73
Dockyng, W. de, 135
Doke, 105
Dokes, 119

152

GENERAL INDEX.

Dokeswurth, 137
Dolyngham, 84
Domynyk, Simon, 14
Donewych, 82
Donne, 72, 105, 119
Donnison, 115
Donyton, 84
Doo, W., 131
Doraunt, 68, 80, 81
Dotemay, 119
Donnesby, Geo. de, 57, 127
Dowe, 79 (2)
Doye, 100
Drake, 112
Drake, W., 133
Dranton, 90
Draper, 118, 134
Drinkeston, 128
Drinkeston, 118
Driwer, 77
Dromer, 115
Droughte, 103
Dullingham, 45
Dun, 72 (2), 77
Dunch, 94
Dunken, 95, 97
Dye, 83
Dygge, 108
Dyke, 85 (2)
Dyx, Thos., 134
East Dereham, 36, 133
East Rudham, 134
Eccles, Reg. de, murder of, 30, 132
Edryck, 72 (2)
Edward, 92 (3), 105, 109
Edwardstone, 3, 12
Eldesen, 107, 108
Elfred, 105
Elmham, 87 (2)
Elmham, W., 126
Elmswell, 114(2)
Elmswell, 14
Elvedon, 86, 87
Ely, Prior of, 33, 46; Sacrist of,
47
Ely, riots at, 47
Elyman, 87
Elys, W., 32
England, state of, temp. Ric. II., 3
English, Hen., 44
Ereswell, 85
Eston, 89, 91, 101
Eston, Jo., 128
Eston, W., 129
Estryle, 119
Eton, 86
Euges, Marg. de, 32
Euston, 103
Everard, 85
Eversden, 48
Eyk, 25, 128

Eyr, Peter le, 43
Falis, 71
Falledew, 111, 114
Fancebroun, 93(2)
Fastolf, Alex., 132
Fastolf, Hug., 24, 32
Fastolf. Jo., 33, 132
Faus, 111
Fayrchild, 84 (2)
Fectere, 96
Fede, 107
Fedeler, Jo., 46
Felbrigg, 37
Felmingham, 26, 28, 39, 132
Felthorp, 30
Feltwell, 31
Felyrs, 88
Fen, atte, 73, 91, 92, 98
Fenhowe, 86, 88
Fenkele, 102
Fenkele, W., 129
Fenman, 119
Fermer, 96, 98, 101
Ferour, 91
Fen-, 68
Filmond, Ric, 27, 28, 51, 131
Finborough Magna, 91, 129
Fisher, 87, 88, 107, 118
Flecher, 90
Fleded, 116
Fleg, 84
Flempton, 67, 71, 72
Flempton, 79 (2)
Fletcher, Rob., 36, 135
Fletcher, Thos., 23
Flory, Rob., 134
Folcreed, Simon, 131
Folke, 93, 115
Folkmere, 105, 106 (2)
Fool, 117 (2)
Foot, 92, 93
Forbishour, Thos., 51, 54
Ford, 107, 118
Ford, atte, 102
Fordham, 13
Foreigner, a, leader in riots, 24
Foreigners attacked by rioters, 32,
61, 63, 135
Fornham All Saints 67, 72
Forth, 108
Fot, 71
Fouke, 70, 75
Foul, 81
Fouldon, 87
Frame, 74, 75
Frary, 118 (2)
Fraul, 93
Fraunces, W., 22, 128
Frauneeys, 86, 118 (2), 119
Fraw, 96
Fremau, 70

GENERAL INDEX.

153

Fremond, 86
French Admiral, 21
Frenchman, 95
Frend, 89, 91 (2), 99 (2)
Frend, Ad., 129
Frenssh, 110
Frere, 119
Freshingfield, 130
Freston,'lii Freston, Jo. de, 30
Freton, 93, 98 (2)
Frie, 90
Froissart, Jo., 27, 29, 31
Frost, 73 (2), 90
Fryote, 82
Fulhond, 75, 76
Fuller, 71, 75, 86, 106, 114 (2), 115
Furbesshor, 89
Fut, 113
Fynch, 119
Fyncham, Jo., 121
Fysshe, 77
Galon, Edm., 48
Galyon, Ad., 133
Gamen, Eath., 13
Gandawe, 77
Gandawys, 106 (2)
Gannuld, 97
Gardener, 69, 70, 77, 88, 99, 101 (2)
Gardener, Jo., 129
Garlek, 114
Garveys, Rob., 32
Gastoun, 111
Gautron, 68
Gaysle, 99
Gazeley, 44
Ged, 87
Geffrey, 95
Geg, 108
Gekes, 75
Geldore, W., 31
Gennote, 86, 87 (2)
Gentil, 92
Gentilhomme,' Jo. , 27, 28, 131
Gerard, 101 (2), 102 (2), 103 (3)
Gerard, Jo., 22
Gerard, W., 21
Gernon, 104, 109
Geulond, 111
Gibonn, Jo., 44, 51
Gilbert, 87
Gilbert, Thos., 128
Gilbonn, 85, 86
Gilden Morden, 44, 137
Gipping Newton, 97, 129
Gislingham, 21, 129
Gissing, see Gy3sing
Glanvill, Geo., 25
Glanvill, Mat., 25
Glanvill, W., 129
Glanvill, 99, 101

Glesue, 100
Gobbe, 99
Gobelet, 97
Gobet, 76 (2)
Goehe, 72, 86
Godard, 105, 118
Godfrey, 77 (4), 78, 80, 113
Godhall, 75
Godwene, 80
Goldford, 78
Goldwyn, 87
Goldyng, 77 (4), 101, 102
Goldyng, Jo., 129
Goney, 101
Goode, Ad., 131
Goodwyn, 118 (2), 119
Goos, 77, 105
Gos, 76
Gosford, Jo., 7
Gosse, 72
Gosselene, 101 (2)
Gowene, 111
Goye, 111
Goyer, 113
Grafton's Chron., 10
Grantchester, Jas., 50
Grantchester, Thos., 50
Graunt, Edm., 128
Gravele, Rob. de, 31
Green Wax, Rolls destroyed, 49
Gregory, 86, 88
Grene, 92, 96, 119
Grene, atte, 75, 83, 97, 101, 102
Grenefeld, 103
Grenegres, 102 (2)
Greyne, 85 (2), 112
Greyston, Jo., 42, 57
Grom, 69
Gundel, 86, 88
Gundi-e, 100
Gunne, 99
Gunneld, Jo., 46; Nich., 46
Gunnild, 102
Gunnyld, 118
Guntre, 90
Gunyld, W., 131
Gurnay, 95
Gurney, Edm., 35, 135, 136
Gybon, Laur., 134
Gyle, 83 (2), 85
Gylles, 118
Gylley, 119
Gyrling, 100
Gyssing, Thos. de, 3, 26, 40, 132
Gyssok, 113
Gyste, 95
Hach, atte, 83 (3)
Hadenham, 44
Hadleigh, 111
Hagwe, atte, 108
Hakebeche, Rob., 120

154

GENERAL INDEX.

Hakoun, 92
Haldene, 117
Hales, Jo., 120
Hales, Rob. de, murdered, 42
Hales, Stephen, 31, 120
Halesworth, Thos., 16, 18, 19
Halle, 98
Halle, atte, 78 (2)
Halsted, 87 (2), 88 (2)
Hamond, 68, 71, 87, 98 (4), 102 (2),
113
Hamond, Jo., 129
Hampton, 97
Hanchach, Ann, 44
Hanchach, Jo., 44, 45, 51, 136, 137,
138
Hanlyn, 82
Hanivorth, 37
Harald, Jo., 131
Hardhefd, 97
Hardy, 87
Hare, 92, 105
Hardfot, 71
Harg..\, 88
Hargham, 118
Hargrove, 67, 73
Harksted, 22, 144
Harleston, 45, 98
Harleston, Rog., 43, 52, 138
Harlyng, 105
Harre, 93
Harsyk, Jo., 120
Hartismere, Hundred of, 114
Hary, 78
Hascard, 104
Haselden, Thos., 44, 45, 136, 137
Hashard, 100
Hassele, 96
Hastyng, W., 120
Haukyn, 82, 83
Hawe, atte, 81 (3), 82 (2)
Hawsted, 67, 74
Hayl, 112
Haynford, 33
Heath, W. atte, 23
Hebyl, 75
Hecham, 36, 135
Hegeman, 68
Hegsete, 98
Heigham, 30
Heigham Potter, 131
Helgey, Gil., 44
Hell, 98, 101, 103 (2)
Hell, atte, 81, 82, 98, see also Atte
Hyll
Hemgrave, see Hengrave
Hemmyng, 112
Hemyng, Edm., 32
Hemysby, 72
Hengham, Thos. de, 37
Hengrave, 67, 75
Hengrave, 76

Hensted, Hundred of, 33
Herist, 83
Herkested, see Harksted
Herlyng, 134
Herlyng, Jo. de, 133
Hermer, 77 (3), 81 (2)
Heningswell, 21
Hers, 119
Herst, 113
Hert, 89
Hervy, 79, 90
Heryngwell, 82 (2)
Hessete, 96
Heth, atte, 75, 76
Hethe, 81 (4), 82, 119
Hevingham, 120
Hevy, 98
Hewes, 111
Heydon, 31
Heydone, 113
Heyham, 93
Heyr, 105
Heyr, the, 79
Heyward, 75 (2), 82
Hibele, 69 (2)
Hill, see Atte Hyll
Hillesone, 106
Hinderclay, 105
Hobert, W., 131
Hog, 106, 107
Hog, Jas., 46
Hok, 96
Hoketon, 73 (2)
Holboy, 110 (2)
Holdernesse, 82
Holgate, 115
Holkam, Jo. de, 35, 135, 136
Holland, 24
Hollesley, 24, 25
Hollesley, Jo., 131
Holm, 68, 87
Holm, 135 (2)
Holmbulke, 136
Holt, 35
Holteretyn, 90
Homite, 109
Hoo, 71, 90 (2), 91 (2), 96 (2), 102
Hoo, 133
Hooc, 99
Hooe, atte, 134
Hoot, 87, 99
Hoppere, 75
Hopton, 82
Hore, 69, 70 (2)
Horn, 73, 104
Horning, 131
Horningsheath Mag., 67, 76
Horningsheath Parva, 67, 77
Horold, 81
Horsecroft, 80 (2)
Hosbond, 94
Hosier, Simon, 51, 54

GENERAL INDEX.

155

Hotost, 101
Hotot, 89, 91, 95, 102 (3)
Houtot, see Horot
Howard, 82
Hoxne, archers of, 58, 130
Hoxne, Hundred of. 21, 130
Hubert, 89
Hulet, 88
Hunstanton. 36, 135
Hunt, 104, 105
Huntingfield, Jo., 128
Huntingdon, 123
Hurt, 75
Husk, 92
Hyll, see Atte Hyll
Hyne, le, 87 (3;, 83
Hynks, W., 131
Ibry, W., 133
Icklingham, 3S
Ickworth, 78 (2)
Ickworth, 67, 73
Ide, 71, 75
Iken, 119
Ikesworth, Jo., 36
Iklington, 46
Ilbert, 104
Illeye, Ric, 120
Indictments, Ar.tient, 7, 126-136
Indyben, Rog., 128
Ingold, 108
Ingrode, Step., 134
Inquisition, Escheator's, 143
Ipsivich, assizes at, 64; Carmelites'
House in, 16; riots at, 22; St
Stephen's, Rector of, 22
Iryng, Gilb., 129
Isbel, Thos., 131
Isleham, 44
Iteryngham, 121
Ixning, Thos., 46
Ixworth, parson of, 16
Ixworth Thorp, 106
Jackysone, 100
Jade, 103 (6)
Jakelyn, 107 (2j
Jay, 93, 1Q9
Jebbys, 117 (2)
Jent, 76
Jerveys, Thos., 131
Jery, 100
Jour, 91
Joy, 93
Joyze, 118
Judy, 105
Julie, 81 (2), 83
Jurymen, Lists of, 128, 129, 131,
134
Justise, 113
Katerineson, 94

Kegyl, 100
Kelfynch, 85, 87
Kellyng, Aug., 44
Kempe, Jo., 45
Keneld, 101
Keneman, 108
Keniston, 134
Kenman, Thos., 35, 135
Kenne, 109
Kennygale, 79
Kent, 74, 87, 90, 93, 102 (2)
Kent, 60
Kentford, 109
Eer, 101
Kersey, 143
Kertlyng, 74, 75
Kes, 75
Kessingland, 115
Ketel, W., 121
Keteryngham, 90
Ketleston, 34
Ketyl, 68
Kik, Jo., 32
Kirkley Road, 32
Kirkowe, 87
Knattishall, 104
Knighton, Hen., 6, 10
Knot, 119
Knyt, 104
Knyth, 77, 82, 103
Koo, le, 80 (2)
Koune, 118
Kybit, William, 28, 32, 38
Kymberly, W. de, 34
Kynch, 77
Kyneyston, 68
Kyng, 97 (3), 101 (2)
Kyng, Jo., 129
Kvppyng, 74 (2), 81
Kytebote, 87
Labourers, 2, 67
Lacford, 77 (2)
Lackford, 67, 79
Lacy, 97, 101
Lacy, Nich,, 128
Lacy, W., 32
Ladde, Jo., 132
Lakenheath, 13, 17, 21, 126, 141
Lakenheath, Edm. de, 21, 22, 130
Lakenheath, Jo. de, execution of,
19
Lamber, 83
Lamberd, 84 (2)
Lambyn, 108
Lancaster, Duchy of, Steward of,
35; Registers of, 31, 44
Lancaster, Duke of, his supposed
connection with rising, 60; un
popularity of, 59
Lane, 68, 71, 96
Lane, In the, 81

156

GENERAL INDEX.

Langemere, 87, 88, 92, 93
Langeton, 107
Langford, 31
Langham, 107
Langham, 76, 107 (2)
Langham, Step, de, 61
Langlyf, 90, 91 (2)
Langlyf, W., 129
Lanwade, 85
Lardy, 87
Lark, The river, 38
Larke, 95
Larlyng, 118
Lavenham, 11, 46
Lawney, 81 (2)
Leaders of Rising, see Rioters
Lee, 98
Leg, 90 (2)
Leg, Jo., 6
Legat, 93
Legt, 87
Leman, 102
Lemmer, 94
Lenedey, 104 (2)
Lenegor, 91, 92
Leneve, 103, 104
Lenote, 108
Lenyng, 119
Lerling, 96 (2)
Letyl, 98, 99
Levyrmere, 93
Lewote, 77
Leycester, Ric. de, 47, 48
Lilye, 98
Lincolnshire, messenger from, at
Bury, 57, 127
Linton, 44, 48, 136
Lister, 86
Lister, Edm., 53
Lister, Geof., 26, 27, 28, 31, 32,
35, 37, 132; slain by the Bishop,
27, 39
Lister, Jo., 27, 35, 52
Lister, Thos., 52, 54
Lister, W., 27
Liston, 9, 10
Litster, Jekke, 38, 39
Litster, Thos., 47
Littlehawe, Manor of, 64; Nativi
of, 64; Customs of, 65
Littleport, 33, 46
Lityngton, 137
Loche, 117, 118
Lof, 119
Loksmith, 86
Loksmyth, Rog., 135
Lomb, Thos., 33
Lomyner, Hen., 30
London, 42, 43
Longcham, Jo. de, 133
Long Melford, 9, 14
Lose, 119

Love, 119
Lowys, 100
Lowestoft, 24
Lucas, 103 (2)
Lucas, Rod., 36, 133
Lyly, 68 (4)
Lymghook, 117, 118, 119
Lyncoln, Thos., 46
Lyng, 70
Lyng, 134
Lynn, 28, 35, 38, 39, 121, 135; Bo-
kenham's place in, 36 ; Cokrowe
in, 36
Lyonn, 113
Lyons, Ric, 10
Mabbesson, 104
Mabylonn, 111
Macworth, Ric, 44
Madour, Jo., 37
Maisterman, Ric, 137
Malkyn, 100
Malle, 115
Malt, W., 45
Man, 83 (2), 99, 105, 109
Manning, 86, 97, 104
Mannyng, Mar., 133
Manser, 91, 96
Manton, Walt., 25
Manuscript Authorities, Antient In
dictments, 7, 126-136 ; Assize
Rolls, 7, 41, 64, 136-138; Cotto-
nian MS., 8, 138, 139; L.T.R.
Enrolled Accts., 120, 123 ; Subsidy
Rolls, Lay, 67
Manysbody, 100
Maraille, 116
Marchal, 109, 110 (3)
Marchand, 89
Margret, W., 45
Mariot, 88
Markys, 97
Marl..., 95
Marleford, 25
Marscal, 113
Marsh, W., 24
Marshall, Jo., 34
Martyn, 70, 71, 87, 95, 99, 119 (4)
Martyn, Ad., 29, 132
Martyn, Jo., 137
Martyn, Ric, 52, 53
Martyn, S., 13
Mason, 72, 73, 107, 110
Masselyn, 95
Massote, 68
Massyn, 95
Massyngham, Jo. de, 134; Nich. de,
28
Massyon, 118
Mateshall, Vicar of, 132, 133
Mauger, 101, 102
Mauncer, 113

GENERAL INDEX.

157

Mawpas, Nich., 36
Mayhew, 69 (2), 70 (2), 71, 72
Maykyn, 107
Mayner, 88 (2)
Maynere, Ric, 134
Mayster, 71, 79, 80, SI (3)
Medwe, 113, 115
Mekke, 88
Meleway, 101
Melforth, 114 (2)
Melk, 71
Melle, 114 (2)
Meller, 70, 71, 82 (2), 83, 85, 89,
91, 95, 100, 108 (2), 109, 111-114
Melton, 22, 127, 128
Members of Parliament attacked, 22,
23, 29, 30, 32, 52, 63
Mendham, 131
Menewood, 84, 85 (2)
Mentyl, 111
Mere, 98
Merel, 81
Mery, 71
Meryel, 68 (5)
Mesham, 93
Messager, 86, S3, 89
Metfield, W. de, 28
Methwold, 28
Methwold, Jo. de, 31
Mettingham Castle, 24, 57, 61
Mey, iOl, 119
Michel, Geof., 46
Michel, Jo., 48, 131
Middleton, 117
Mildenhall, 13, 14, 17, 18, 25, 34,
85, 126, 139, 140 ; Heath, 18, 19 ;
Vicar of, 14
Mildman, 88
Milieent, Jo., 134
Miller, Mat., 14
Millere, 87 (3)
Mincin, 116
Mitte, 113
Monchesey, Th., 3, 12
Montenay, Jo. de, 26, 40, 132
Monteney, Thos. de, 133
Moor, 94
Moor, atte, 84
Morel, 118
Moriel, 102
Morieux, Thos., 7, 31, 126
Morlee, W. de, 31
Morley, 87, 88 (2)
Morley, Thos. de, 38
Mors, 75
Moryel, 74, 75
Mot, 99, 100
Motonn, 96 (3)
Motonn, Jo., 129
Mounpelers, 94
Mountys, 117
Mower, 75, 79

Mud, 68
Muggard, 112
Mulberve, 86
Multon, 96
Mun leford, 84
Mundegome, 98
Munk, 115
Murwell, 83
Mu.-i.old Heath, 27, 29, 132; meet
ing at, 28
Musiardar, 86, 88
Mut'jrd, Hundred of, 115
MylVs, 93
Naunton, 93
Naws, 82
Neb. 85, 86
Nccdham, 23
Neel, 93, 96
Neeys, 112
Neith, 84
Nel, 112
Neng, 70
Netherstrete, 96
NeUthird, 33.
Neue, 91, 92, 114, 115
Neuman, 98, 101, 119
Neu;on, 97
Neve, 90, 91, 106
Newelle, Thos. de, 133
Newhawe, 77
Newhous, 116
Newman, 97, see Neuman
Neicmarket, 14, 17
Nicole, 71, 73, 118
Noble, 77
Noon, Jo., 134
Noon, Rob., 134
Noieys, Jo., 52
Norfolk, Countess of, 24
Norfolke, 75
Norman, 68 (2), 80, 81, 82, 84
North, W., 43
Northern, 86
Northern, Jo., 25
North Walsham, 37, 131; dtte of
encounter at, 37; encounto at,
39
Northumberland, 4
Noncich, 27, 31, 38, 39, 121 ; riots
at, 23-30
Norwich, Archdeacon of, 30
Norwich, Bishop of, 34, 36, 38, 55,
67, 135 ; fined by the king, 6i
Norwich, Jo. de, 58
Norys, Geof., 134
Note, 104
Nottinghamshire, 54
Nottynge, 71
Nowton, 67, 80
Nngge, 110
Nyse, 119

158

GENERAL INDEX.

Odam, 87
Ode, 102 (2)
Okele, 83
Old, Jo., 128
Old Newton, 95, 128, 129
Oliground, 117
Onehouse, 98
Ook, atte, 133
Organisation of movement, 57
Ormer, 96
Orwell, 44
Osbern, 71, 82 (2), 92, 97, 102
Osbern, Jo., 127
Osborn, 119
Osburn, 71 (2)
Osbun, 110 (3)
Ossegut, 119
Otysdole, 107
Overstrand, 37
Oxeford, Jo., 62
Pachat, 93, 94
Padenhale, 101, 102
Padinak, W.. 134
Page, 71, 74 (2), 78, 79 (2), 81, 82
(2), 86
Page, Jo., 131
Pakenham, 98, 99, 106
Pakenham, Hen., 121
Pakkeman, 103 (2), 104
Pakynham. see Pakenham
Palmer, Jo., 134
Palmere, 96
Pampeswwth, 136
Panton, Bali., 135
Papworth, 44
Parfay, (Jeof., 12, 129
Parham. Rector of, 25
Park, 78
Parker, 118
Parmater, 86
Parmeter, 88
Partre, 90, 91
Partaxh, 85
Paryt, 74, 85, 111
Pascile, 80
Patbmere, 110
Paja, 72 (2), 73 (2), 93-95, 111
Payn, Thos., 128
Paynot, Thos., 36
Pe'lder, Jo., 13
Pfdebef, 112
Ptke, 71
Bslle, 112
lenne, 86, 88 (2)
?enrith, 3
Penyman, 88
Peper, Jo., 48, 136
Perdon, 119
Perot, 119
Perrers, Alice, 10
Pers, Edm., 134

Pers, Ric, 134
Personnesman, 106
Pese, 113
Petel, 114
Petrisburg, 86
Peyntor, 100
Peytevyn, 82 (2)
Peyton, 72
Pinehebek, — , 36, 119
Pirie, 92
Place, 87
Plant, 91
Plat, 95
Playford, 87
Plays, Jo., 24
Plomesgate, Hundred of, 119
Plumbe, 90
Plumer, Robt., 46
Pole, Jo. de, 13, 126
Poll Tax (1377), 6; Enrolled acct.
of, 6, 120
PoU Tax (1381), amount collected
by, 5 ; clerical, 7 ; collection of,
4 ; Enrolled accts. of, 6; first
returns of, 6; second commission
of, 6
PoU Tax lists (1381), vii ; analysis
of, 67
Pope, 72, 109
Pope, Ad., 35
Population of England (Clerical) in
1381, 123
Population of England (Lay) in
1377, 121; in 1381, 121
Population of Wales (Clerical) in
1381, 124
Poreth, 119
Port, 82
Porter, 110 (2), 111, 113
Poter, Jo., 13, 126
Potte, 90
Powel, Rog., 25
Powgwene, 74
Poyt, 104
Prat, 87
Prat, Walt., 36
Prentys, 100, 10S, 114
Prest, 76
Preston, 112 (2)
Pi-iUay, 117
Priour, Jo., 128
Proude, 101
Prycke, 68
Pucool, 107
Puddy, 100
Pulrose, 77
Pulter, Ad., 30, 132
Pumpyn, 70, 71 (2)
Pur.-, 85 (2), 86, 87
Purston, 79
Puttok, 115
Pye, 77, 78, 84, 93

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159

Pykbon, 115
Pykerel, Jo., 34
Pykering, God., 131
Pykering, Jo., 131
Pykrel, 87
Pylgrey, S4 (2)
Pyn, 94 (2)
Pynchebek, 36, 119
Pypere, 75, 77, 112
Pyteman, 88
Quarel, 116
Quy, 45
Qwenel, Geof.,'-134
Qwte, IG-^see Whyte
Qwyntenoye, Jo., 33
Qwyte, 76, 100
Qwytewyng, 101
Qwytyng,_100
Ramsey, 46
Ramsey, Abbot of, 47
Rande, 85
Randekyn, 117
Randesson, 46
Randolf, 90
Raneld, 100(2)
Raph, 84
Rash, 104
Rasol, 106
Ratlesden, 88
Raych, 107, 108
Reach, 43
Rebat, 111 (2), 112
Rebel forces, composition of, 62 ;
numbers of, 61
Reche, 89
Rede, 67, 69
Rede, 108, 119(2)
Redere, 87, 106
Redmedowe, Edm., 53
Redyng, Ben. de, 131
Redynhale, 71
Bee, 119
Reed, 90, 118
Reed, Jo., 120, 121
Ressh, Ric, 24
Resshebrok, see Rushbrooke
Reve, 85, 89, 95, 119
Revenhal, 85
Reymond, 88
Reyner, 112
Reyner, Geof., 135
Reynham, Edm. de, 36, 120
Reynold, 94, 106, 111
Reynolds, Jo., 24
Reysonn, 116
Ricard, 82
Richard II., his arms displayed by
rioters, 58 ; his authority claimed
by rioters, 31, 42, 45, 47, 53,
132, 137; his position in 1381,

58 ; his supposed connection with
rising, 59
Riche, 73, 97
Rigge, 99
Ringsfield, 24
Rioters, Leaders of, in Camb., 41,
44; in Norf., 26; in Suffolk, 9,
11, 21, 22, 32; Provincial, in con
nection with London, 42, 43;
tactics of, previous to outbreak,
27, 41, 57
Risby, 67, 82
Rising in East Angha, organisation
of, 57 ; unopposed, 57, 58 ; see
Rioters
Robeld, 90(2)
Roberdeson, Sim., 134
Rockingham, 42
Rogers, Jo., 45
Roggere, 73, 103
Rogges, Ad., 21
Rogyn, 109(2)
Rokwood, 69, 70
Rokwood, Jo., 12
Rolf, 79, 88
Bolle, 104
Rome, 92(2), 100
Rome, journey to, 15
Rond, Ric, 13
Rondham, 86
Rook, 104
Rose, 77, 96(3), 101, 113
Rougham (Norf.), 31
Rouly, 92
Rous, W., 21, 130, 131
Rowe, 102, 103
Royse, Hen., 29, 132
Rudham, 77
Rumbald, 108
Rungeton, 77
Bunting, 103
Rushbrooke, 93, 118, 119
Rushbrooke, W., 68
RusseU, Jo., 51, 54
Russin, 71
Rust, 107, 108
Rust, Rob., 135
Ryche, 73, 97
Rychond, W., 136
Ryngedale, 77
Ryssengles, Jo., 131
SadiUer, 86
Saffrey, Jo., 43, 45
St Benedict de Hulm, Abbot of, 30
St Benedict de Hulm, Abbey of, 33 ;
night attack on, 34
St John of Jerusalem, Priory of, 44,
45
SaUe, Sir Bob., 30, 31; death of,
29, 132
Saltebek, 107

160

GENERAL INDEX.

Salter, 93, 94, 112, 113
Sampson, 110 (2), 112
Sampson, Lora, 145
Sampson, Thos., 22, 23, 28, 127;
inquisition of, 143
Sannty, 81
Sare, 72
Sarle, 89, 90
Sawer, 102
Saxham, 78
Saxham Mag., 67, 80
Saxham Pana, 67, 81
Sayer, 111
Sayham, 78
Saylour, 72 (2)
SayviU, Thos., 6
Scales, — de, 31 ; see Skales and
Schales
Sceth, 38; see Skeet
Schabayle, 78
Schales, 96; see Scales
Schalo..., 118
Schapman, 73, 114; see Chapman
Schayl, 113
Schene, 97 (2)
Schere, 116
Schenvy... , 68
Scherwynd, 91
Schitte, 101
Schompayn, 79
Schordwaner, 79
Schort, Rob., 128
Schot, 68, 80, 81; see Scot
Schypman, 107, 108
Schyth, 100 (2)
Scot, 98, 108; see Schot
Sculton, 69
Sebourgh, 76
Sefoul, Geo., 120
Sel, 109
Seman, 110
Semer, 112
Senker, 90
Senlowes, 92
Serjaunt, 80 (2)
Serjiantes de payes, 87
Servants, 2, 67
Setard, 105, 106 (2)
Sewale, 101
Sextayn, 114
Seygge, 92
Seynsbury, Jo., 32
Shakerys, 89, 91
Shaldrye, 98
Shapestre, 105
Shardelow, Jo. de, 64
Shamebourne, 135
Shelland, 98, 128
Shengay, 45, 138
Shepherd, 70, 79 (2), 80-83, 93, 94,
96, 98, 101, 104, 105 (3), 106 (2),
108, 110, 118, 119

Sherman, Hen., 28
Shethe, Jo., 47
Ship called 'Waynpayn,' 145
Shipman, see Schypman
Shirle, Jo., 54, 57
Shitte, 94 (2), 102
Shortnekke, 69 (3), 70
Shudy Camps, 44
Skales, Rog., 126, 129; see Scales
Skalnian, 112
Skarlet, 86
Skeet, Thos., 28, 38
Skeyman, 93
Skoyt, 115
Skrevenor, W., 25
Skulton, 90
Skut, 93
Skvnner, 86, 87, 88, 108, 112
Slade, 82
Slautere, 68, 82
Sloutere, 112
Sly, 86 (3), 88 (2)
SmaU, 119
Smalbon, 93, 94
Smalwode, 71
Smith, Ad., 32
Smyth, 68 (2), 69 (2), 70, 73 (2),
74-77, 82 (2), 83 (2), 84 (2), 86 (3),
88, 89 (2), 91 (2), 92, 93, 95, 99,
103 (2), 105, 107, 109, 113 (2),
115, 119 (2)
Smyth, Hen., 135
Smyth, Jo., 16, 131, 135
Smyth, Ric, 131
Smyth, W., 133, 134 (2)
Snellyng, 100
Snettisham, 135
Snowyth, 108
Snowwhyte, 118
Snyterton, Sim. de, 36
Soham, 44
Somerton, 13, 126
Somerton, 69, 70
Somerton, Ralph, 11
Sondes Castle, 33
Soneman, 69, 70
Sopere, 85, 86, 88
Sorell, 91, 99
Sorrell, Jo., 129
Soterly, 24
Sothewynd, Thos., 128
Soun, 117
Sourale, 69
Soutere, 68, 86 (2), 87, 99, 105,
117, 119
Soutere, Rob., 65
Southgate, Geof., 24
Southous, Edm. de, 133
Southous, Rio. de, 133
Southrcpps, 37
Spak, 71
Spanye, Jo., 36, 61, 135

GENERAL INDEX.

161

Spark, 68
Sparwe, 91, 107, 108, 112, 114 (3),
115
Sped, 71
Spenser, 32, 107, 118
Spenser, Hen., 61 ; see Norwich,
Bishop of
Spetylman, 92. 93 (2)
Spicor, 119
Spot, 90, :•!, 100
Spring, 93
Sprot, 113
Sprouton, 97
Stalpy, 92
Stamboiuxe, 109
Stampyn, Rob., 134
Stanford, Hen.. 32
Stannford, Jo., 43
Stansfield. 12; parson of, 16
Stanton, 90, 100 (2), 104
Starre, Marg., 52
Statutes of Labourers, 1, 2
Staverton, Jo., 128
Stede, 94 (2)
Steeple Morden. 44, 137
Sterde, 100
Sterme, 80 (2)
Stoke, 95
Stoke juxta Clare, 21, 22
Stone, Jo. de, 135
Stonham, 71, 75
Stonton, 101 ; see Stanton
Storych, 73
Stow juxta Anglesey, 43
Stowe, Hundred of, 89
Stoiclangto't, 109
Stowmarket, 39. 129
Stradbrook, 131
Stratford, Roger, parson of, 23
Straw, Jack, bo
Strongehobbe, F.ob., 132
Strotel, 94
Stuntney, 46
Styward, 69
Succlyng, 37 (3i
Sudbery, 96 (2>'
Sudbury, 0, 10. 11, 12, 25, 36, 133;
All Sain;:, 129
Suffolk, Archdeacon of, 23
Suffolk, Earl o:. 13, 25
Suklyng, Ric, 130
Sulman, W., 131
Sumper, 83
Suthrey, 31, 34
Sutton, 46
Sutton, Jo. de, 23
Sutton, Marg. ce, 23
Sveyn, 119
Svyn, 119
Swaffham, 42
Swaffham, Little, 45
Swaffham, Thos. de, 43, 45

Swage, 88
Swalwe, 101
Swou, le, 88
Sygo, 86 (3), 87, 89
Symond, 86 (2), 88 (3), 118, 119
Syre, 98
Taillor, see Taylor
Talbot, 99
Talihowr, 96
Talmache, Jo., 3, 11
Talmache, Ric, 3, 22, 127
Tangham, 115
Tankard, 74
Tavell, Rob., 11, 12, 44, 47, 49;
death of, 46
Taylor, 73, 78 (2), 83, 84, 86 (4),
93, 95, 104, 106, 112 (2)
Taylor, Geof., 128
Taylor, Jo., 37
Taylor, Ph., 134
Tendryng, W. de, 67
Teppyng, 111
Teversham, Jo. de, 134
Tewe, Robt., 31
Thashere, see Thatcher
Thatcher, 79, 87 (2), 89, 109
Thedham, 91, 111
Thelich, 96
Thetford, 129
Thetford, Mayor of, 12
Thingo, Hundred of, analysis of
Poll Taxes in, 67
Thommyson, 79
Thorndon, 86
Thorney, 101, 129
Thorpe Market, 35, 37, 39
Thresher, 88, 96
Threin, 110
Thurgor, 73
Thurlow parva, 43
Thurmood, 83 (2), 84, 92
Thursford, parson of, 35
Thurston, 88
Thurston, parson of, 65
Thurston, 64
Thwaite, 114
Thyth, 119
Tipping, 96
Tofeld, 85
Toffay, 107
Toke, 96
ToUote, 87
Toly, 105
Topham, 120, 122
Torel, Thos., 43, 138
Tornor, 71
Tostock, 90, 91
Totyngton, Walt, de, 19, 141
Toune, 84
Toiver, Keeper of Victuals at the, 51
Tracy, 78 11

162

GENERAL INDEX.

Trades and Callings1 :
Agricola, 68 (3), 69 (5), 71, 72 (4),
73, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81 (7), 83 (3),
85 (21), 91 (13), 92 (10), 93 (9),
94 (8), 95 (15), 96 (11), 97 (15),
98 (2), 102 (5), 103 (4), 104 (3 ,
105 (3), 106 (5), 107 (4), 108 (5),
109, 110 (4), 111 (2), 112, 113
(9), 114 (4), 118 (19) ; see also
Cultor
Architect, 107
Armiger, 69, 76, 78, 81, 89, 92 (2),
95 (2), 96, 106, 109; see also
Chivaler and Generosa
Barker, 73
Basket-maker, 90
Bercarius, 69, 103 (4), 106, 108,
109 (2), 110 (3), 111 (2), 118;
see also Pastor
Bercher, 111
Bocher, 68, 106
Brasiator, 69 (2), 85 (7), 90 (2),
105, 109 (3), 112, 114 (3)
Browster, 71, 73 (2), 74, 78, 81,
96
Capellanus, 109
Carnifex, 90, 93 (2), 97 (2)
Carpenter, 69 (2), 71, 75, 76 (2),
83, 84(3), 89(2), 90(2), 93(3),
97, 101, 102, 108 (3), 111 (2),
112 (2), 113 (2), 114, 116, 118 (4)
Carucarius, 69, 70, 107, 113
Carucarum tentator, 110
Carucator, 96 (3), 105, 106, 114,
116
Celarer, 89
Chinchere, 89, 90 (2), 96, 112
Chivaler, 107 ; see. Armiger
Cissor, 89, 90 (2), 92 (2), 93 (3),
96, 97, 108 (2), 111, 112 (3),
113, 116, 118 (3); see also
Tailor
Claud (?), 1, 112
Colermaker, 89, 90
Cordwainer, 79; see Sutor
Corn-loder, 108 (2)
Cooperator, 90, 105, 106, 109
Coopertor, 96, 118
Corsour, 110
Cultor, 99 (20), 115 (4), 116 (6),
117 (7); see also Agricola
Day, 106
Draper,. 6S, 76
Faber, 69, 73 (2), 75 (2), 92 (2),

Trades and CaUings (continued) :
93, 95 (2), 96, 109, 113, 118 ;
see Smith
Firmarius, 89, 117 (2)
Flecher, 89
Fleicer, 95
Fouller, 90
Fuller, 71, 90, 95 (2), 106, 107,
111 (2), 112 (4), 113 (2)
Generosa, 89 ; see also Armiger
Gleente?, 90
Haberdasher, 90
Hoxster, 90
Launter, 113
Meller, 96, 108
Mercator, 111 (2), 112, 113
Mercer (?), 103
Mersonarius, 106
Messor, 68, 111
Meter, 103
Molendinarius, 90, 109, 111
Paner-maker, 92 (3)
Pannarius, 85 (3), 112 (10), 113 (4)
Parve tenure, 111 (2), 112
Pastor, 96 (3), 107 (4) ; see Shep
herd
Pedder, 69, 96
Pelliparius, 90, 93, 95
Piscator, 95, 116 (10)
Pistor, 89, 90 (2), 104
Redere, 106
Sacrista, 96
Serjiaunts de Payes, 87 (2)
Shepherd, 70; see also Bercarius
Sherewoman, 90
Sherman, 69
Skrevenor, 109
Smith, 68, 82, see Faber
Spinner, 94 (6), 105 (2), 106 (5),
107 (5), 108 (3), 109, 117 (2)
Spinster, 90 (2)
Sutor, 6S, 89 (4), 90, 95 (2), 105
(2), 107, 113, 114 (4), 118
Tachere, 82
Tailor, 68, 73, 74, 79, 81 (2), 84,
105, 106 (2), see Cissor
Tannator, 90
Tegulator, 90
Thasher, 79
Thatcher, 110

1 This index of Trades and Callings refers only to the PoU Tax lists. The
numbers in brackets give the number of persons to whom the term is apphed,
husband and wife being reckoned as one. The general classifications Artificers,
Labourers, and Servants are not here included.

GENERAL INDEX.

163

Trades and CaUings (continued) :
Textator, 92 (2)
Textor, 93 (3), 95, 97, 107, 111
(-¦'), H3 (3,
Tinctor, 39, 112 (2), 113 (2)
Triturator, 96 (3), 105 (2), 107,
103 (2;. 109 (2)
Turner, 63, 118
Vannator, 70
Webbe, 79
Webber, 96 (3), 101 (2), 114, 118
Webster, 68, 69, 71, 75, 81, 83,
104, 105 (2), 103 (3)
Wright, 32
Trenchmere, 76
Trim..., 68
Trist, 98
Trot, 100
Trunch, Jo. de, 23, 32, 38
. Trust, 98
Truton, 92
Tryker, 100 (2)
Tudenham, 70
Tnddenkam, 82
Turgy, 104 (2)
Turnay, 86
Tumour, 63, 99
Turry, 117
Tweyt, 114
Tyby, 75, 88
Tyd, 87
Tyle, 71
Tyler, 94, 101, 109 (2), 118, 119
Tyler, Wat, 9, 10, 14, 34, 35, 59
Tymworth, 88 (2)
Tymworth, Jo., 15
Tyncewyk, 79
Tynton, 93 (2), 98 (2)
TyteshaU, Jo., 53
Ufford, W. de, 126, 131
Va, 119
Vaus, 98(2;, 111
Verdon, 82 |2), 83
Vicory, W., 136
Vynte, Jo., 12S
Wade, 72, 110, 113(2)
Waketon, 97
Walcard, 73(2), 83
Waler, 109
Walhous, 72(2)
Walkelynge, 74 (2), 75
Walpool, Jo. de, 135
Walsham, 69, 70, 85, 87(2), 96
Walsham, Ralph de, 14
Walsingham, Edm. de, 48, 138
Walsingham, Thos. de, 2, 9, 27, 31 ;
his account of rebel defeat, 37

Walsingham Parva, 28, 35
Walspryng, 69
Walteshen', Ric, 46
Walton, 24, 136
Wangeforth, 96
Warde, 63, 73(2), 74, 75(2), 81,
107, 108
Warner, 68 (2)
Waryn, 86, 101, 111
Wastel, 75, 119
Watlesfield, 21
Wattes, Jo., 28
Watton, 88
Wattys, 85
Wauton, 103(2)
Waynpayn, a ship called, 145
Wayte, 87
Webbe, 79
Webbe, Jo., 136, 137
Webber, 101 (2), 128
Webster, 83, 86 (3), 115, 117, 118
Wechingham, W. de, 33
Wekys, 90
Wei, atte, 79 (2)
Wele, 75
Welham, 80(2)
Welhous, 72
Welyngham, 83 (2), 84
Weneis, 96
Wenlok, W., 121
Wente, 100
Wentworth, 47
Wepated, 76(2)
Wergowns, 96
Wescard, 119
West, 72 (2), 76, 117
Westbron, Rob., 16
Westbronn, 96 (4)
Westbronn, Jo., 129
Westcretyng, 94
West Dereham, 34
West Lexham, 35
Westley, 67, 83
West Wratting, 46
Wetherde, 110
Wetherden, 91
Wetherden, $5, 129
Weyne, 119
Whederyld, 101
Whelwryghte, 113
Whepsted, 67, 84
Whetewong, Jo., 36
Whyte, see Qwyte
Whyte, Jo., 46
Whytewing, see Qwytewyng
Whytman, 85
Whytyng, see Qwytyng
Wickmere, 37
Wielif, Jo., 3
Wigmore, W., 51
Wilbraham, 42, 45
Wilde, 90, 91

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GENERAL INDEX.

Willingham, 48
Wimpole, 44, 45
Wingfeld, W. de, 126
W interim, 33
Wirlingworth, Elias, 131
Wlvard, 101
Wode, 83(2), 91, 92, 96, 107, 108
Wode, atte, 101
Wodecok, 73, 96(3)
Wodver, 112
Wokilwode, 134
Wolfreston, Rog. de, 23
Wolleman, 112
Wolrich, Thos., 131
Woodbarningham, 37
Wooditton, 41
Wordwell, 110
Worsted, 28
Wotton, 69
Wrawe, John (of Ringsfield), 24
Wrawe, John (of Sudbury), 9-12,
17-19, 32, 36, 37, 129, 133 ; exe
cution of, 25 ; his authority in Cam
bridgeshire, 41, 48 ; his authority
in Norfolk, 36
Wroo, 103
Wroo, Thos., 41
Wrotham, 25
Wroxham, 32
Wryght, 69, 71, 73, 75, 82, 88 (2),
93, 98, 100, 111, 112
Wryte, see Wryght

Wryth, see Wryght
Wulward, 111
Wyard, 115
Wyfford, 68
Wygg, 119
Wyghton, 31
Wyhot, 106
Wykes, 109
Wylde, 85, 88, 118
Wylkok, 83
Wylymot, Sim., 135
Wymbyl, 107, 108
Wymdyssh, 119
Wymondham, 38, 134
Wympol, Nich., 53
Wyng, 89, 99, 100
Wynyeve, 76, 106, 107
Wyse, 105
Wysman, 69 (2), 70, 76
Wysman, John, 128
Wyth, 110
Wytlok, 109(2)
Wytnesham, Walt., 128
Wytyng, 119
Yarmouth, 33, 36, 39; charter de
stroyed, 32 ; riots at, 32
Taxham, 133
Xongwone, 83
Zouch, Hugo le, 138
Zyngge, Ric. le, 128

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