1374-12-06, Westminster

_ _ _ Thomas Merle, Williamman de Ayermyn, John Ketell, Williamman de Ayermyn, Robert Knotte of Ingoldesby, Thomas Cook, Wiliamman de Ayermyn, and others besieged him and his servants at North Willyugby, co. Lincoln, within his dwelling house there for a long time, making continuous assaults to kill them there and burn his houses, so that he dared not go thence to the king's castle of Somerton to survey it and repair the defects thereof as he was charged by the king, assaulted him and his men and servants, so threatened them that he dared not go to his own and cannot find servants to serve him, whereby his crops and hay have been lost through lack of servants, his land is untilled, his meadow unmown and his other affairs undone. ' For 4 mark paid in the hanaper.