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Thomas Duncalf of Cheshire. Duncalf Thomas King. Duncalf requests that letters of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/330/E972

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Reference
SC 8/330/E972
Date
[1471-1483]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Duncalf of Cheshire.
Name(s)
Duncalf, Thomas
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Duncalf requests that letters of the privy seal are directed to Prestwich and Bartholomew Holcroft to appear before the king in the octave of Hilary next to answer the complaints made against them by the petitioner on pain of £200 so that the petitioner may be restored to his lands and tenements in Hulme, Bedford and Pennington with his costs, issues and profits taken before this time. Prestwich came with armed men to Norbury and burnt a windmill of Thomas Hyde and because the petitioner as sergeant of Law of the earl caused Prestwich and his men to be outlawed he occupied Duncalf's land in Hulme. Holcroft and his sister had forcibly occupied land in Bedford and Pennington which the petitioner had sued against Holford's father for pasture in [Detail of the legal progression of the suit].
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Cheshire
Hulme, Lancashire
Norbury, Cheshire
Bedford, Lancashire
Pennington, Lancashire.
People mentioned
Edward, earl of Chester
Ellis Prestwyche (Prestwich), esquire, of Hulme
Thomas Hyde
Bartholomew Holcroft
Margery [Holcroft], sister of Bartholomew Holcroft and widow of Richard Massey
Richard Massy (Massey), late husband of Margery Holcroft
Rawlyn Holcroft, father of Bartholomew Holcroft
William Ayscogh
Robert Harecourt, justice of the peace in Lancashire.
Note
The petition is dated to 1471-1483 as it refers to Edward, earl of Chester, eldest son of the king, and this can only be the eldest son of Edward IV, as the petition clearly refers back to events in Henry VI's reign, so that it cannot be Henry VI's son Edward, or Richard III both of whom only had one son.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682967/

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