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Robert, Prior of Upholland Robert King Prior of Upholland Robert, Prior of Upholland,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1037

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Reference
SC 8/21/1037
Date
[1391]
Description
Petitioners
Robert, Prior of Upholland
Name(s)
Robert
Addressees
King
Occupation
Prior of Upholland
Nature of request
Robert, Prior of Upholland, requests that the king send writs to Henry Tebbe of Thringstone and other malefactors, his associates, to appear before the king and council in parliament to answer concerning the great trespasses and wrongs they have committed against him concerning his church of Whitwick, and to find sufficient surety for the prior and his people for their lives and limbs, since they are in such favour with the sheriff of Leicestershire that he will not arrest them or serve writs on them.
Nature of endorsement
A commission is to be given to a serjeant-at-arms to arrest these malefactors and bring them into parliament, to answer concerning the horrible trespasses mentioned here.
Places mentioned
Up Holland, [Lancashire]
Whitwick, [Leicestershire]
Threnguston (Thringstone), [Leicestershire].
People mentioned
Henry Tebbe of Thringstone
William [Tebbe], brother of Henry Tebbe
Robert Sisselson
Robert Grubber
Richard Sprot
John Grenelowe.
Note
Securely dated by reference to CPR 1391-6 p.79, which is dated at Westminster, 14 November 1391, and by the enrolment of the petition on the roll of the parliament of November 1391 (Rot. Parl. vol. III pp.286b-287a).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4178
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.79 (appointment of John Elyngeham, serjeant-at-arms, to arrest the malefactors and bring them before parliament)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.286b-287a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, with judicial process arising from it)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061198/

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