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Ralph Basset, esquire. Basset Ralph Commons of parliament. Ralph Basset complains...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/96/4795

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Reference
SC 8/96/4795
Date
[c. 1449]
Description
Petitioners
Ralph Basset, esquire.
Name(s)
Basset, Ralph
Addressees
Commons of parliament.
Nature of request
Ralph Basset complains of attacks on his house at Blore in Staffordshire by John Cokayn of Ashbourne, Thurston Vernon, William Cokayn and other malicious persons, around All Hallows Eve, in the King's twenty-eighth year. He asks the commons to ask the King to issue a writ to the Sheriff of Staffordshire, to make proclamation that the malefactors are to be summoned before King's Bench to answer for their actions; so that if they do not appear they are to be considered as convicted, and writs of capias issued; and if they do, they are to be sent to the Marshalsea until they have found security to answer for their crimes.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] Let it be delivered to the lords.[On dorse] Let it be done as is requested.
Places mentioned
Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Haddon, Derbyshire
Blore, Staffordshire
Marshalsea prison, [Southwark, Surrey].
People mentioned
John Cokayn of Ashbourne, esquire
Thurston Vernon of Haddon, esquire
William Cokayn of Ashbourne, gentleman
John Cursom
Richard Bagot
Henry Bradburne
Adam Baxtonden, servant of Ralph Basset.
Note
The attacks took place around All Hallows Eve, in Henry VI's twenty-eighth year [1449]. This petition must have been delivered shortly after that.
Related material

For a list of malefactors formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/96/4796

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1052
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149361/

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