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                      (  17  ) They took Sir John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, cut off his head, and placed the same upon the pillory in St. Edmund’s Bury. They beaded John of Cambridge, the prior thereof and John de Kabinbuith, one of the priors of Commoignes carrying them in triumph, and placing them upon poles of the said pillory

They caused the convent to surrender to all obligations and writings obligatory in their custody, and all their counters of priviledge, which Canurus the founder and bestowed upon that house which the more to endear themselves to their fa- vour, they cancelled and delivered to the townsmen ; with many more outrages too tedious to mention in this small book.

In like manner in Norfolk under the command of John Litister a Dyer of. Norwich, the like outrages were com- mitted.——-From their hot headed and re- bellious fury the Earl of Suffolk but nar- rowly escaped North Waltham, in Nor- folk.

They filled their Captain King of the Commons, and forced the Scales and Hureley, with divers other Worshipful