John Bryn; Roger Leney (Lyneye); Robert Swynnerton (Swinnerton); Thomas Marchall;...

Petitioners

John Bryn; Roger Leney (Lyneye); Robert Swynnerton (Swinnerton); Thomas Marchall; Henry Herdley.

Name(s)

Bryn; Leney (Lyneye); Swynnerton (Swinnerton); Marchall; Herdley, John; Roger; Robert; Thomas; Henry

Addressees

Commons of parliament.

Nature of request

The petitioners state that in the parliament in the first year of the king's reign, Robert Corbett and Richard Lacum, who were returned as knights for Shropshire, maliciously named them as collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in the county, intending to use this as an opportunity to attack them; which they did, wounding them and killing their horses, and preventing them from collecting the money. They request that the commons ask the king to give them a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] Soit baille au roy (It is to be delivered to the king).[On dorse] The answer to this petition is on the great schedule sewn to it.

Places mentioned

Salop (Shropshire).

People mentioned

Robert Corbett (Corbet)

Richard Lacum (Laken).

A later related petition from Thomas Marchall is SC 8/23/1147

A later related petition from Robert Swynnerton is SC 8/23/1148

The schedule containing the injuries done to the petitioners, and the response, is C 49/14/3

For another related petition see C 1/69/168

A later related petition from Roger Leney is SC 8/23/1146

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen V, vol. I, 1413-1419, (Public Record Office, 1929), p.103 (Writ for payment of Robert Corbett and Richard Laken (Lacum) as knights of the shire for Shropshire in 1 Henry V)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.30b (no. 10) (full edition of original petition, with associated schedule and response as pp.30b-31a (no. 11))