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Everard Digby, esquire, knight of the shire for Rutland. Digby Everard Commons. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/105/5244
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/105/5244
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1450]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Everard Digby, esquire, knight of the shire for Rutland.
- Name(s)
- Digby, Everard
- Addressees
- Commons.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner shows how he was peacefully seised of the parkership and keeping of the park of Ridlington in Rutland, to hold for the lifetime of Thomas Neel with all manner of fees, wages etc., when Cheseldene, etc, disturbers of the king's peace, arrayed in manner of war with sallets, bows, arrows and other weapons in manner of riot, assaulted John Astelby who was then in the house of William D[D...]; ... they promised not to harm him if he would come to them, but he was disarmed and beaten, wounded and left for dead. Astelby recovered and on the 24 October lately past, Cheseldene and the others went to the parker's lodge and broke in and took various tools from the petitioner. John Cheseldene continued in his malice against the petitioner and his servants. On Monday in the second week of Lent last and ... Gyssing and other wrongdoers (numbering thirty-five), in manner of war, shot various arrows at Agnes the petitioner's wife and at his servants (the petitioner then being in London at parliament) and attacked his house with the intent of taking away Alice Germycher, etc. The petitioner asks for consideration that Astelby has delivered before now to the sheriff of Rutland a sufficient warrant for the Lord Cromwell to arrest Cheseldene ... and by the authority of the present parliament he asks that a writ of proclamation be sent to the sheriff of Rutland charging him to make proclamation throughout Rutland that Cheseldene and his accomplices appear before the king in the quindene of Trinity ... and that if nothing is done then the sheriff is to forfeit £200 (half to the king and half to the petitioner and Astelby), etc.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Deliver to the lords.[On dorse] The king wishes it as desired.
- Places mentioned
- Rutland
- Leicestershire
- Ridlington, [Rutland]
- Uppingham, [Rutland]
- Allexton, [Leicestershire]
- Slawston, [Leicestershire]
- Wymondham, [Leicestershire]
- Great Easton, [Leicestershire]
- Stokeston, [Leicestershire]
- Greetham, [Rutland]
- Wardley, [Rutland]
- Hougham, [Lincolnshire]
- London.
- People mentioned
- Thomas Neel
- John Cheseldene, esquire, of Uppingham
- William Cheseldene, gentleman, late of Allexton
- William Banaster, yeoman, late of Uppingham
- John Rudding, Servant, of Uppingham
- Robert Mellour, yeoman, late of [...]
- Robert Shortrede, yeoman, late of Uppingham
- William Chashaum, Yeoman, late of Uppingham
- John Astelby, the petitioner's servant and under-keeper of Ridlington Park
- William D[D...]
- Walter Ganter
- John Gyssing, yeoman of Slawston
- William Frisby, yeoman of Uppingham
- Robert Tailor, yeoman of Ridlington
- John Alayn, yeoman, late of Easton in Leicestershire
- Henry Brownsmith, yeoman of Stokeston in Leicestershire
- John Smith, yeoman of Stokeston
- George Walker, yeoman, late of Uppingham
- John [...] of Stokeston, gentleman
- William Parker, yeoman of Easton
- William Sowter of Slawston
- Haukyn Venebles, yeoman of Wymondham
- John Baylis, yeoman of Wymondham
- William Taylor, yeoman of Wymondham
- Robert Elyngham, yeoman, late of Greetham
- Nicholas Baxster, yeoman of Wardley
- Ralph Balshman
- John Ma[...],yeoman of Hougham in Lincolnshire
- Agnes [Digby], the petitioner's wife
- Alice Germicher, lately the wife of Thomas Germycher
- Ralph [Cromwell], Lord Cromwell
- Henry Seagrave.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to c. 1450 on the basis of the petitioner's mention of his attendance at the parliament held that year.
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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 2674
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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)
- English
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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/C9149814/
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