Robert Walron, executor of John Talbot of Swannington, knight. Walron, executor of...

Petitioners

Robert Walron, executor of John Talbot of Swannington, knight.

Name(s)

Walron, executor of ; of Swannington, knight., Robert

Addressees

King and lords and commons of parliament.

Nature of request

Robert Walron, one of the executors of John Talbot of Swannington, states that when he, with his co-executor Alan le Zouche, sued a writ of debt against James Belers, knight, for £200, on a bond made to John Talbot, James' son John came with a body of armed men, dragged him, a sick man of eighty, away half-naked, and took him to John Belers' manor of Sysonby, and there he and his brothers kept him for twelve days, maltreating him until he had made an acquittance for their father's debt, and an oath and a bond that he would not prosecute them for what they had done. He requests a remedy, so that he can sue the malefactors, and prosecute his action of debt, and that they might be severely punished, as an example to others.

Nature of endorsement

It is agreed by the king and lords in parliament that several writs should be sent to John and James Belers, that they should appear before the king and council in parliament on the Monday after the feast of St Benedict next, on pain of a penalty of £100 each. And another writ is to be sent to the sheriff of Leicester, to summon them on the same day, if they are at their houses; and if they are not there, the writs are to be left with the inhabitants, to deliver to them. And if they do not appear on the day, they are to incur the penalty of £100. And this is to be good for this case only, and not a precedent.

Places mentioned

Swannington, [Leicestershire]

Snypston (Snibston), [Leicestershire]

Sixynby (Sysonby), [Leicestershire].

People mentioned

John Talbot of Swannington, knight

Alan le Souche (Zouche)

James Belers, knight

John Belers, son of James Belers

William Belers, Dominican friar, son of James Belers

James Belers, man of law, son of James Belers.

A writ resulting from this petition is SC 8/23/1107B

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.230 (commission of oyer et terminer concerning this matter) & p.234 (commission to arrest John Belers and James Belers the younger)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.564a-b (no.7) (full edition of original petition)