[1] [2] Diuerse also were arreigned at the same time of the said felonies, and thereof acquited, as Michaell Scabaille,The common people often deceiued by lewd infor|mations. Rafe Smeremonger, and others. Indéed those that were found guiltie, and suffered, were the chéefe authors and procurors of the commotion, bea|ring others in hand, that the abbat had in his custo|die a certeine charter, wherein the king should grant to the inhabitants of the towne of Burie, certeine liberties, whereby it might appeare that they were free, and discharged from the paiment of diuerse cu|stomes and exactions, wherevpon the ignorant mul|titude easilie giuing credit to such surmised tales, were the sooner induced to attempt such disorders as before are mentioned. ¶ Thus haue yée heard all in effect that was doone in this first yeare of king Ed|ward the third his reigne, by and against those offen|dors. But bicause we will not interrupt matters of other yeares with that which followed further of this businesse, we haue thought good to put the whole that we intend to write thereof here in this place.