Robert Horner, Thomas Torold, Thomas Sparow and Alice Ankes, late wife of John Ankes,...

Petitioners

Robert Horner, Thomas Torold, Thomas Sparow and Alice Ankes, late wife of John Ankes, poor tenants and inhabitants of Spalding and Pinchbeck.

Name(s)

Horner; Torold; Sparow; Ankes, Robert; Thomas; Thomas; Alice

Addressees

Commons of the present parliament.

Nature of request

The petitioners ask that various tenants of Lord Welles be summoned to appear before the bench to answer charges concerning attacks on them and their property. Following a legal dispute between the people of Spalding and Pinchbeck and Lord Welles over attacks in 1449 on their houses and property, on 1 April 1450 Welles sent over 100 men from his castle at Maxey into the parish of Spalding and assaulted many of the tenants, killing John Ankes, injuring various others and stealing goods. The petitioners have already complained to the king as their lord, who ordered Welles to cease the attacks and appear before him at Leicester on 20 April, but Welles failed to appear.

Nature of endorsement

Let it be done as requested.

Places mentioned

Spalding, Lincolnshire

Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire

Duchy of Lancaster

Market Deeping, Lincolnshire

Maxey, Northamptonshire

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Crowland, Lincolnshire

East Deeping, Lincolnshire

West Deeping, Lincolnshire.

People mentioned

John Ankes, late husband of one of the petitioners

Lionel (Leo) Welles, Lord Welles

[Margaret Beauchamp], Duchess of Somerset

[John Beaufort], Duke of Somerset

Thomas Ankes

Watkyn Fyre

John Spencer of Maxey

Richard Sponer of Maxey, priest

William Jakson (Jackson) of Maxey, husbandman

Richard Olyer of Maxey, eel catcher

Robert Tailboys of Lincoln

John Paryssh (Parish) of Market Deeping, husbandman

John Takke of Market Deeping, husbandman

John Botiller of Market Deeping, tailor

William Ynge of Market Deeping, smith

John Watson of Market Deeping, husbandman

Walter Loreyng of Market Deeping, husbandman

Thomas Beale of Market Deeping, labourer

Thomas Baston of Market Deeping, labourer

Thomas Tayllour (Taylor) of Market Deeping, tailor

John Crowne of Market Deeping, weaver

John Russe of Market Deeping, carpenter

Steven Gryndell of Market Deeping, husbandman

Richard Oryell of Crowland, fisher

Robert Kytelpeny of East Deeping, shoemaker

Hugh Kytelpeny of East Deeping, husbandman

Robert Meeke of East Deeping, husbandman

John Greene of East Deeping, fishmonger

William Greene (alias William Fowler) of East Deeping, fisher

Geoffrey Fayreday of East Deeping, husbandman

Thomas Baker of West Deeping, husbandman.

The text of this petition, enrolled together with that of the subsequent writ in the record of an ensuing case in King's Bench, can be found on rot 76 of KB 27/758