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Lieges of Wolverhampton. Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor. The lieges of Wolverhampton...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/306/15290
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/306/15290
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1412-1413]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Lieges of Wolverhampton.
- Addressees
- Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- The lieges of Wolverhampton request remedy against Stafford who has committed various extortions and oppressions, and that he appear before the chancellor to answer to the charges listed in this petition:1) on Wednesday before the Conversion of St Paul in the 12th year of Henry IV [1411] Stafford procured Thomas and Robert Myners, John and James Holyns and Welley to come armed and arrayed for war into the King's church in Wolverhampton where they assaulted Leveson, who had been wounded and maimed in the King's company at the battle of Shrewsbury, and beat and wounded him so severely that he died in the church;2) on Stafford's order John and William Myners, Wiggington, Deacon and others of Stafford's retinue, indicted and outlawed for felony, killed Featherstone in his own house on Saturday before the Nativity of St John the Baptist in the 12th year [1411], killed Ryng at Sedgley in the 13th year [1411], killed Smith at the abbey of Hales Owen, came by night to Wolverhampton and broke a mill of the dean of Wolverhampton called 'le Damme Mille', a mill of Bysshebury, a mill of Everdon called 'Goosbrook Mille', and a mill of Juliana called ['Seysedon] Mille', and forced Walsshman, who was going to a baker's in Wolverhampton, to burn his cart on Compton Hill;3) Stafford and his men ordered all millers in a four-mile radius of Wolverhampton not to bring corn or other victuals to the said town;4) Stafford and his men ordered all other victuallers not to bring any victuals to the market [of Wolverhampton].
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
- Shrewsbury, [Shropshire]
- Sedgley, Staffordshire
- Hales Owen, Worcestershire
- Compton Hill, [Worcestershire].
- People mentioned
- [Thomas Arundel], Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor
- Humphrey de Stafford the younger, knight
- Henry IV, King of England
- Thomas Myners of Staffordshire
- Robert Myners of Staffordshire
- John Holyns of Staffordshire
- James Holyns of Staffordshire
- Ranulph de Welley of Staffordshire
- Richard Leveson of Wolverhampton, esquire
- John Myners
- William Myners
- John Wygynton (Wiggington)
- Henry Deykyn (Deacon)
- Richard Fetherston (Featherstone)
- Roger Ryng
- Nicholas Smyth (Smith)
- [Robert Wolden], Dean of Wolverhampton
- William Bysshebury
- Thomas Everdon
- Juliana [Leveson]
- John Walsshman.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1412-13 since it is addressed to the archbishop of Canterbury as chancellor and refers to events of the 12th year of the reign of Henry IV, and with reference to CPR 1408-13, p. 408, a pardon to John Wiggington for the murder of Roger Ryng, the breaking of several mills including that of Robert Wolden, dean of Wolverhampton, called 'le Dounmille', the mill of William Busshebury called 'Tunstall Mulne', the mill of Juliana Leveson called 'Seyseden Mulne' and the mill of Thomas Everdon called 'Sewall Mulne', and other crimes.
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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, Hen IV, vol. IV, 1408-1413, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.408 (pardon to John Wiggington for various crimes)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518345/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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