John de Pateshull (Pattishall). de Pateshull (Pattishall) John King and council....

Petitioners

John de Pateshull (Pattishall).

Name(s)

de Pateshull (Pattishall), John

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Pateshall states that he was taken at the king's order in Huntingdonshire and brought before the king on the Sunday before the discomfiture at Burton, and was questioned by the elder Despenser because Pateshall had advised the bishop of Chester to send his heir to the earl of Lancaster. He was also questioned concerning florins and gold vessels belonging to the bishop whose executor he was, and he answered that they were in the keeping of the dean and chapter of Lichfield for the making of a chapel over the bishop's body, and because he did not wish to acknowledge that they were in his keeping, he was imprisoned. When they neared Pontefract he was sent to Lichfield to find the florins and vessels, and after the king had had them he still could not be released and was forced to make a recognizance to Despenser which sum is still to be paid. He requests remedy so that the recognizance be held null.

Nature of endorsement

If he can make himself a party of the quarrel, he is to be aided as one of the quarrel.

Places mentioned

Huntingdonshire

Burton-upon-Trent, [Staffordshire]

Rouwell (Rothwell), [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Pontefract, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Lichfield, [Staffordshire].

People mentioned

Hugh le Despenser, [Earl of Winchester], the father

[Walter Langton], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (Bishop of Chester]

[Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster

Dean and Chapter of Coventry and Lichfield

Robert de Wodehous (Woodhouse)

Walter [de Pattishull], brother of the petitioner.

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/14/700

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.529 (the Pateshall recognizance to Despenser)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.386b-387a (no.45) (full edition of original petition)