Irritated by repeated breaches of promise on the abbot's part, the outlawed burgesses seized him as he lay in his manor of Chevington, robbed and bound him, and carried him off to London.

There he was hurried from street to street lest his hiding-place should be detected till opportunity offered for shipping him off to Brabant.

The Primate and the Pope levelled their excommunications against the abbot's captors in vain, and though he was at last discovered and brought home it was probably with some pledge of the arrangement which followed in 1332.

The enormous damages assessed by the royal justices were remitted, the outlawry of the townsmen was reversed, the prisoners were released.

On the other hand the deeds which had been stolen were again replaced in the archives of the abbey, and the charters which had been extorted from the monks were formally cancelled.
[Sidenote: St.Edmundsbury in 1381] The spirit of townsmen and villeins remained crushed by their failure, and throughout the reign of Edward the Third the oppression against which they had risen went on without a check.