1400-11-10, Westminster

Commission of oyer and terminer to William Rikhill, William Brenchesle, Richard Waldegrave, chivaler, Thomas Coggeshale, Clement Spice and Thomas Lampet, on complaint by Henry, prior of Earl's Colne, that Matilda, countess of Oxford, John Preston, monk, Thomas Mounchesy, Thomas Tue, John Preston, esquire, Roger Boleyne, James Picard, John Sumpter, Laurence Cook, John Swalewe, John Harold, Roger Palfreyman, Thomas Smyth, Thomas Hunte, Thomas Hotte, Thomas Hansepe, William Ayllewy, John Glover, Simon Warde, John that was Nicolservant Brayham, Adam Edward, Reginald Cook, John Yinge, Robert Bray, William Breton, clerk, Thomas Peper and William Peryboon and other evildoers broke his close and house at Earl's . Parr I. 415 by night, assaulted and imprisoned him and carried him from thence to divers places within the county of Essex and then back, shamefully clad, to the said town, where they detained him until he had sworn on the Host never to disturb the said John Preston in his claim and possession of the priory or to divulge the fact that he had taken the oath under compulsion, cut down his trees and underwood there and at Messyng and Great Bentelee, fished in his several fishery at Earl's Colne, carried away fish, trees and underwood and other goods, consumed his corn and grass and assaulted his fellow monks and servants. For 20s. paid in the hanaper.