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William, Lord Botreaux Lord Botreaux William Council 1) Botreaux states that Ralph...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/35/1717

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Reference
SC 8/35/1717
Date
[1426]
Description
Petitioners
William, Lord Botreaux
Name(s)
Lord Botreaux, William
Addressees
Council
Nature of request
1) Botreaux states that Ralph Botreaux, Langkelly and others from Easter last have continually, at various places, plotted and laboured by sorcery, arts, magic, necromancy and other diverse manners of subtlety to watch, enfeeble and ruin and otherwise destroy the body of Botreaux, and in aid of this procured Allbolde and other malefactors knowledgeable in the arts according to the information of Allbolde, Bowet, Byrches, and Haylbard. Botreaux requests that they examine Ralph Botreaux, Langkelly and others as they think fitting at their discretion, and of all the circumstances of this and ordain a remedy so that he can live without the destruction of his body by magic, and that those found to be involved be duly punished so that all other such malefactors will eschew such magic.2) Draft of a commission to Cheyne, Juyn, Luttrell and others to hold an inquisition in the county of Somerset concerning William, Lord Botreaux's complaint.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Northcatbury (North Cadbury), Somerset
Kilmington, Somerset
Tarrant, Dorset
Restormel, Cornwall
Trottokeshill (Trudoxhill), [Somerset]
Shaftesbury, [Dorset]
People mentioned
Ralph Botreaux, knight
William Langkelley, yeoman
John Alwolde of Trudoxhill, Hugh Bowet of Kilmington, chaplain
John Newport
Avis Byrchis of Shaftesbury
Thomas Haylbard of Kilmington
William Cheyne, knight, Chief Justice
John Juyn, knight
Thomas Brooke, knight
William Bonevyle, knight
John Warre
John Stourton the elder
William Poulet
Hugh Cary
Note
The petition date to 1426 as the commission, a draft of which follows the petition, was issued on 1 August 1426 (CPR 1422-9, p.363).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1124
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.363 (enrolled commissions to Somerset, Dorset and Cornwall regarding this matter)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061916/

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