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Alice le Messager (Messenger), widow of Walter le Messager of Lydbury. Messager (Messenger)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/175/8715

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Reference
SC 8/175/8715
Date
[1292]
Description
Petitioners
Alice le Messager (Messenger), widow of Walter le Messager of Lydbury.
Name(s)
Messager (Messenger), Alice
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Messager requests remedy as her livestock, which were being driven by Coly and his valets from Lydbury to Wigmore Abbey were seized by Hopton's men and taken to Hopton Castle, and Hopton still holds them. The matter was not raised at the last eyre in the time of King Henry because Hopton was the king's justice.1)
Nature of endorsement
Pledges to prosecute: Roger de Wygwyke, Adam le Berner of Cleobury Mortimer.2) Summoners of Walter de Hopton, Lucas de Ruton, William son of John de Bishop's Castle. All the others named in the writ are dead.3) In time of war and beyond 25 years, she conceded the limitation of time in a case of this kind, therefore nothing.
Places mentioned
Lydbury North, [Shropshire]
Wigmore Abbey, [Herefordshire]
Hopton, [Shropshire]
Clun, [Shropshire]
Hopton Castle, [Shropshire]
Cleobury Mortimer, [Shropshire]
Shelderton, [Shropshire].
People mentioned
Walter le Messager (Messenger) of Lydbury
Richard Coly
William Fitz Robert, valet of Richard Coly
Ellis [Lydebury (Lydbury)], son of Adam de Lydbury, valet of Richard Coly
Walter de Hopton
John, son of the chaplain of Hopton
Kenewreyk le Forester
Roger le Monner
Roger de Wygwyke
Adam le Berner of Cleobury Mortimer
Lucas de Ruton
William [de Castro Episcopi (Bishop's Castle)], son of John de Bishop's Castle.
Note
The document refers to events on 1 December 1264, and one of the responses refers to this being 25 years or more earlier which places this record to c. 1290. As the record appears to be an eyre plaint it is likely that it belongs to the eyre held in Shropshire from 6 October-15 December 1292 (Crook, D., Records of the General Eyre, (1982), p.175).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.294-5 (full summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294583/

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