William de Venables, son of William de Venables. de Venables William Lords of parliament....

Petitioners

William de Venables, son of William de Venables.

Name(s)

de Venables, William

Addressees

Lords of parliament.

Nature of request

William, son of William de Venables, states that it has been ordained in the present parliament that proclamation should be made in the next county court in Chester after the feast of the Epiphany last, that he, and others called malefactors, should appear at the next county court and find security for the peace for John de Kyngesley. He states that he, the others, and John de Kyngesley have been placed under the protection and ordinance of the Earl of Stafford, both with regard to the security and to all other points of contention between them, but that the order for the proclamation was issued notwithstanding this. He asks that, if he finds security for the peace for John de Kyngesley, this ordinance and proclamation might be annulled.

Nature of endorsement

It is to be done as is desired by the petition.

Places mentioned

Edleston, Cheshire

Chester, Cheshire.

People mentioned

William de Venables

John de Kyngesley (Kingsley)

[Humphrey Stafford], Earl of Stafford

Peter de Pole, Lieutenant of the Justice of Chester.

For transcript, see no.4 of PRO 31/7/117

For a memorandum once attached to that petition, see SC 8/119/5929

For a schedule of names once attached to that petition, see SC 8/119/5930

For the petition from John de Kyngesley which resulted in the order for the proclamation, see SC 8/119/5931

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429, (Public Record Office, 1933), pp.352-3 (order to the Justice of Chester to summon William Venables and other evildoers to find surety of 1000 marks to keep the peace towards John de Kyngesley)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Parliament of 1427, Appendix, no.8 (calendar of response on Close Roll)