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John Wykes. Wykes John Lords of parliament. John Wykes states that he was arrested...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/147/7345

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Reference
SC 8/147/7345
Date
[1406]
Description
Petitioners
John Wykes.
Name(s)
Wykes, John
Addressees
Lords of parliament.
Nature of request
John Wykes states that he was arrested in Southwark on 14 October last by certain ministers of the King, and handed over to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, without any reason that he knows. He was imprisoned there until 25 October and then, by force of a writ of the King, delivered to John Arnold and John Dounesby, to bring him before the King. He has now been brought to Coventry, and imprisoned outside the town where his friends cannot find him, so that they do not expect him to come to answer before the King. He asks the lords to ask the King that he might be brought before the King in the present parliament to answer to any person or persons who might wish to accuse him of anything.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Southwark, [Surrey]
London
Coventry, [Warwickshire].
People mentioned
John Arnold, sergeant-at-arms
John Dounesby, esquire.
Note
CPR 1401-5 p.503 is dated 10 October 1405, presumably before the petitioner's arrest on 14 October. The reference to Coventry (where the 1406 parliament was originally summoned) and the mention of the present parliament, suggests that this petition can be dated to the parliament of 1406.
Related material

For transcript, see no.4 of PRO 31/7/113

For a petition from two others in the same case, see SC 8/148/7362

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.503 (commission to John Arnold and John Dounesby to arrest the petitioner and others and to bring them before the King)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209529/

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