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William Venables of Kinderton, Constable of Chester castle. Venables William Commons...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/77/3824

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Reference
SC 8/77/3824
Date
[c. 1428]
Description
Petitioners
William Venables of Kinderton, Constable of Chester castle.
Name(s)
Venables, William
Addressees
Commons of parliament.
Occupation
Constable of Chester castle
Nature of request
William Venables states that when a security to keep the peace was demanded from William Venables the younger before Peter de la Pole, then justice of Chester, the justice, wrongly assuming that William Venables the younger was in his keeping, charged the petitioner with guarding him until he had found this security, on pain of 1000 marks. The petitioner asks the commons to ask the King and other lords to ordain an inquiry, by authority of parliament, whether at the time he was charged in this way William Venables the younger was present, or in his keeping, or not, and if it is found that he was neither present nor in his keeping, that the charge and the penalty of 1000 marks might be declared null and void. He also asks that it might be ordained by the same authority that the 1000 marks should not be levied in the meantime.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] Let it be sent to the lords.[On dorse] The King wishes the Duke of Gloucester, justice of Chester, to fine the supplicant in this petition at the sum of £20; so that the supplicant may be fully discharged of all the matter comprised in this petition.
Places mentioned
Kinderton, [Cheshire]
Chester, [Cheshire].
People mentioned
William Venables the younger
Peter de la Pole, justice of Chester.
Note
Dated on the guard to '? c. 1428', with no reason given. The date does seem to agree with the hand and language, however.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8212
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107598/

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