1404-10-24, Coventry

Commission of oyer and terminer to John Hull, William Hankeford, John Wadham, Robert Hull, John Prestecote and William Burleston, on complaint by Laurence Hankyn, parson of the church of Northmolton, that John Bray, Thomas Myst, John Stork, John Hoigges and John Hunston and others broke his closes and houses at Northmolton, co. Devon, dug in his soil there, carried off earth and other goods of kis to the value of 20/., made a stank with pales and stones by a spring within his close to water their horses and other animals therein so that the water running into the stank from the spring and out over its banks inundated twelve acres of his land there sown with divers corn, depastured and consumed his corn and grass by going to and coming from the stank with their horses and animals, and assaulted and threatened his men and servants. For mark paid in the hanaper.