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Hugh Burnell. Burnell Hugh King and lords of parliament. Hugh Burnell states that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/95/4712
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/95/4712
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1381]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Hugh Burnell.
- Name(s)
- Burnell, Hugh
- Addressees
- King and lords of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Hugh Burnell states that on the Sunday after the feast of St Lawrence [10 August] in the King's fifth year [1381], John Burley of Wistanstow and others murdered John Englis, esquire, in his own house, and when they were indicted for this, threatened Joan his wife and certain people of the inquest. They complained to the justice, who sent William de Walle, Bailiff of the hundred of Munslow, to arrest John Burley and others, and to bring them before him to find security to keep the peace; but when he did so, John de Lodelowe, knight, and Brian de Cornwaille, Burley's companions, killed him. Hugh de Burnell and the Sheriff pursued them with the power of the county: they refused to surrender, and a fight took place at Burford. Now they have ordered an inquisition into the death of one of their men there by one of the coroners of Worcestershire, who has no jurisdiction, and he has indicted nearly 200 men of Shropshire. Hugh asks that the matter might be inquired into by knights and squires of the county where the incident took place, and that the indictments made by the coroner of Worcestershire might be null and void, and no appeal granted in the matter until the truth has been inquired into.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Wistanstow, [Shropshire]
- Marsh, Shropshire
- Munslow hundred, [Shropshire]
- Leebotwood, [Shropshire]
- Burford, [Shropshire]
- Shrewsbury, [Shropshire]
- Worcestershire.
- People mentioned
- John Burley of Wistanstow
- James [Burley], brother of John Burley
- William Phellips (Philips), chaplain
- John Englis (English), esquire
- Joan [Englis (English)], wife of John Englis
- Nicholas Burnell, justice
- William de Walle, Bailiff of the hundred of Munslow
- John de Lodelowe (Ludlow), knight
- Brian de Cornwaille (Cornwall), knight, of Burford
- Richard Parker
- William de Wotton
- John Watyes
- John Horton
- Thomas de Bullesdon
- Fulk Sprenchose
- Thomas de Leghton
- William Foster of Shrewsbury
- John Somnour, coroner of Worcestershire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to c. 1381 as the original murder took place in August of that year.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.24 of PRO 31/7/108
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 860
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149263/
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