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Adam de Pesale. de Pesale Adam King and council. Adam de Pesale states that when...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/146/7271
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/146/7271
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam de Pesale.
- Name(s)
- de Pesale, Adam
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Adam de Pesale states that when he was returning from the King's coronation, Hugh de Wrottesley lay in wait for him at a place called Foxlydiate to kill him. He also lies in wait for Adam's servants and tenants of Shifnal, so that they do not dare to work or go to market, and stole some oxen from William Barker, tenant of Adam de Pesale, at Wrottesley, and held them until he made fine with him. His retinue are also outlaws and malefactors from Cheshire and Lancashire. Adam requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- A writ is to be issued under the great seal to Hugh de Wrottesley, to appear before the council on the morrow of Martinmas next, on pain of £300, to answer to this bill.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Foxhunte Ledeyate (Foxlydiate), Worcestershire
- Shifnal, [Shropshire]
- Wrottesley, [Staffordshire]
- Cheshire
- Lancashire.
- People mentioned
- Hugh de Wrottesley
- William Barker, tenant of Adam de Pesale.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.106 of PRO 31/7/110
For the writ issued as the result of this petition, see SC 8/146/7270
For another petition from Hugh de Wrottesley, see SC 8/146/7282
For a counter-petition from Hugh de Wrottesley, see SC 8/146/7269
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- A History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, G. Wrottesley, (Societe Jersiaise, Bulletin, vol.III, pp, 1903), pp.147-8 (abstracts and discussion of this and related documents)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209454/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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