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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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This record is about the Randolph Pyget. Pyget Randolph King and council. Pyget requests remedy against Fairfax... dating from [1380] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/164/8194
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1380]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.469 (oyer and terminer in accordance with the petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294039/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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