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Randolph Pyget. Pyget Randolph King and council. Pyget requests remedy against Fairfax...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/164/8194

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Reference
SC 8/164/8194
Date
[1380]
Description
Petitioners
Randolph Pyget.
Name(s)
Pyget, Randolph
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Pyget requests remedy against Fairfax and Etton who, with 400 others armed and arrayed for war, rode to Clotherholme on the Tuesday after the feast of All Saints and entered his manor with force and arms, broke into his rooms, stole his goods and chattels and the hats and clothes of his men and servants there and burned them, killed Cote, injured, beat and wounded his other servants, frightened his wife with their horrible acts and threatened Pyget's life so that, fearing being trapped by their assembly, he stays away from his manor, as a result of which great royal commissions were sent to certain lords and the sheriff of Yorkshire to arrest these criminals and for Pyget to ensure peace, which he has done, but nothing has yet been done because the criminals are more daring and gather others to them to support their crimes.
Nature of endorsement
William de Melton, knight, sheriff of York, is to answer this bill in parliament on Monday.
Places mentioned
Clotherholme, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Ripon, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
York.
People mentioned
Thomas Fairfax
Thomas de Etton
Archbishop of York
William del Cote, servant of Randolph Pyget
William de Melton, knight, sheriff of York.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1380, with reference to CPR 1377-81, p. 469, a 1380 commission of oyer and terminer in response to this petition.
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. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.469 (oyer and terminer in accordance with the petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294039/

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