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James de Pykeryng (Pickering), knight. de Pykeryng (Pickering) James King. James...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/67/3308

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Reference
SC 8/67/3308
Date
[1378]
Description
Petitioners
James de Pykeryng (Pickering), knight.
Name(s)
de Pykeryng (Pickering), James
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
James de Pykeryng, who was one of the knights for Westmorland in the last parliament at Westminster, states that while he was there, Thomas de Roos of Kendal and his four sons, with 300 armed men laid in wait for James' men and tenants of the high road in the town of Helsington, and on the Saturday before St Nicholas last attacked them, killing two and wounding six. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Westmorland
Westminster
Kendal, [Westmorland]
Helsington, [Westmorland].
People mentioned
Thomas de Roos (Ros) of Kendal, knight
Richard [Roos (Ros)], son of Thomas de Roos
Peter [Roos (Ros)], son of Thomas de Roos
John [Roos], son of Thomas de Roos
Robert [Roos], son of Thomas de Roos
Thomas de York, [servant] of James de Pykeryng
William Jonson, servant of James de Pykeryng.
Note
James de Pykeryng represented Westmorland in the parliaments of 1362, 1365, 1377, 1378, 1379 and 1382 (CCR 1360-4 p.440 (17 November 1362), CCR 1364-8 p.169 (27 February 1365); CCR 1377-81 pp.105 (5 December 1377), 221 (16 November 1378) and 252 (27 May 1379), and CCR 1381-5 p.227 (24 October 1382). Of these parliaments, the writs for expenses for the October parliament of 1377 were dated on the eve of St Nicholas' day (5 December). If this was when the attack took place, James would have been able to present his petition at Gloucester in 1378, and this is the overwhelming likelihood, although, as the parliament of 1379 was sitting on the translation of St Nicholas (9 May), there is a small chance of this petition dating from the January parliament of 1380.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6785
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107079/

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