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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William Bercher of Kingthorpe. Bercher William King. William Bercher of Kingthorpe...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/295/14747
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/295/14747
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1413-1422]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Bercher of Kingthorpe.
- Name(s)
- Bercher, William
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- William Bercher of Kingthorpe states that in the time of the king's father, William Campyon, Henry de le Stabyll, Adam Skayff, Andrew Langbaron, William Fordon, William de Dale, John Colynson, John de Bolton, John Futynghale, and Lawrence Nitynghale, on the orders of Edmund Hastynges and William Hastynges, attacked him at Kingthorpe, putting out his eyes and cutting off a large part of his tongue. And when they later learned that he could still speak, they lay in wait for him disguised as women, in order to kill him; and their threats were such that for a long time he did not dare to complain to the king, and barely dares to complain now. He asks, in consideration of these horrible deeds, and because he is too poor to sue at common law against the malefactors, who are very powerful and have many allies in the area where the deeds were done, that the Chancellor might be instructed to order them by writ, on pain of a heavy penalty, to appear before the king to answer for their actions and to other accusations the petitioner wishes to make, and to do and receive what the king wishes to order.
- Nature of endorsement
- Various writs are to be issued under the great seal to William Campion and to his nine accomplices mentioned here, to appear before the king in Chancery on a certain day and on pain of a certain penalty, to be decided by the Chancellor, to answer to the matter of this petition.And the Sheriff of Yorkshire is also to be ordered by the king's writ to deliver the king's writ, addressed to him on this matter, to each of the aforesaid persons.
- Places mentioned
- Kingthorpe, [North Riding of] Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- William Campyon (Campion)
- Henry de le Stabyll (Stable)
- Adam Skayff
- Andrew Langbaron
- William Fordon
- William de Dale
- John Colynson (Collinson), chaplain
- John de Bolton
- John Futynghale of Kingthorpe, shepherd
- Lawrence Nitynghale, husbandman
- Edmund Hastynges (Hastings) of Yorkshire, knight
- William Hastynges (Hastings), esquire, kinsman of Edmund Hastynges
- Henry [IV], King of England
- [Mary de Bohun].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From the reference to King Henry, the king's father, and to the souls of the king's father and mother, this petition would seem to date from the reign of Henry V, and probably from the early years of the reign, before the king's departure for France.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735913/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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