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William Scot Scot William Commons in parliament Scot states that Henry and Ellis...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1269

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Reference
SC 8/26/1269
Date
[1431-1432]
Description
Petitioners
William Scot
Name(s)
Scot, William
Addressees
Commons in parliament
Nature of request
Scot states that Henry and Ellis Bradley great malefactors and other unknown malefactors of their affinity have often come at night to Scot's house at Hammerton to kill him, his sons and servants, hiding in unknown place both in Yorkshire and Lancashire so that no sheriff, justice of the peace or other ministers of the king to find and arrest them, so that Scot, his sons and servants are not able to live in the house of go about their business for fear of being killed, and the malefactors still continue their activities. Scot requests that the commons request from the king that he grant a writ of proclamation to the sheriff of York and to the sheriff of Lancashire, to make proclamations at the market of Skipton in Craven, and at the market at Clitheroe respectively that Henry and Ellis appear before the king in his Bench on the same day that the writs are returnable upon a certain penalty to find sufficient surety to keep the peace, and if they do not appear to forfeit the penalty.
Nature of endorsement
The king is to be advised.
Places mentioned
Slaidburn, Yorkshire
Bowland, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Ribchester, Lancashire
Hammerton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Skipton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Craven, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Clitheroe, [Lancashire]
People mentioned
Henry Bradley of Slaidburn in Bowland in Yorkshire, yeoman
Ellis Bradley of Ribchester in Lancashire, yeoman.
Note
The title in Rot. Parl. Vol. IV, p.414 states this petition to be for 10 Henry VI (1431-2).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7634
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.416a-b (edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061444/

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