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Robert Sage. Sage Robert King and council. Sage requests that justice be done against...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/164/8177

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Reference
SC 8/164/8177
Date
[? 1394]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Sage.
Name(s)
Sage, Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Sage requests that justice be done against William and Walter Beauchamp who in 1394 came, armed and arrayed for war with seven others, to Sage's house in Brighthampton and searched it, and finding nothing they searched the surrounding fields and found Sage ploughing his own land, and on horseback and armed with swords would have killed him while the other men beat him and Hertland, his sister's son, with Sage armed only with a stick, and they did this because Dunmowe, Hertland's servant, was found riding on the green called Kyngesham grene, being private property and in the hands of the King, and to preserve the King's right Dunmowe was arrested, because of which Sage has suffered the aforesaid damage.
Nature of endorsement
No endorsement.
Places mentioned
Powick, Worcestershire
Brighthampton, [Oxfordshire]
Churchdown, Gloucestershire.
People mentioned
William Beauchamp of Powick
Walter Beauchamp, brother of William Beauchamp
William Hertland, nephew of Robert Sage
John Dunmowe, servant of William Hertland.
Note
Dated on the guard to? 1394, with reference to CPR 1391-6, p. 432, a 1394 commission to enquire and certify who conspired and lay in wait to kill Sage at Monmouth and Usk, and there assaulted Richard Baret, burgess of Gloucester, believing him to be Sage, and left him for dead. The petition mentions events of the Thursday after the feast of St Edward in the 17th year of the king's reign, referring to Richard II, so 1394.
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, Ric II, vol. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.432 (commission to enquire into conspiracy to kill Sage at Monmouth and Usk)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294022/

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