 The fourteenth-century legal system included practices of vigilantism and retribution.Debts were often recovered using force, disputes resolved by duels and judges were only involved when all else failed.The Folvilles, finding themselves as 'heroes of the revolution' (at least locally, having saved their neighbours from the nefarious acts of Despencer and Belers), became emboldened and continued to commit acts of retribution and, as the years went by, found themselves on both sides of the law being repeatedly outlawed and then pardoned.