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John Assheton (Ashton), knight. Assheton (Ashton) John King. John Assheton complains...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1443

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Reference
SC 8/29/1443
Date
[1473]
Description
Petitioners
John Assheton (Ashton), knight.
Name(s)
Assheton (Ashton), John
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
John Assheton complains that John Myrfeld, Richard Ledys, and numerous other malefactors attacked his manor of Howley, in Morley in Yorkshire, and, when he surrendered himself to them, imprisoned him in Pontefract Castle, releasing him on a bond of £1000. He asks the king to ordain, by authority of parliament, that he may have as many writs as he needs to the Sheriff of Yorkshire, asking him to make proclamation in the markets of Pontefract and Wakefield, that John Myrfeld and Richard Ledys are to appear in person before the King's Bench at Westminster to answer for these crimes; with various provisions specified in the petition for particular eventualities.
Nature of endorsement
The commons have assented to this bill (on face).Let it be done as is desired (on dorse).
Places mentioned
Holley (Howley), [West Riding of] Yorkshire
Morley, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
Pontefract, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Wakefield, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
John Myrfeld, esquire, late of Pontefract
Richard Ledys, gentleman, late of Pontefract.
Note
This petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament summoned at Westminster in October 1472 (12 Edward IV) and prorogued a number of times until January 1475 (Rot. Parl. vol. VI, pp.51b-52b). It is stated on p.51b that it was presented on 8 February, 12 Edward IV (1473).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 152
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. VI, Edw IV, Ric III and Hen VII, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.51b-52b (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061632/

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