. . . Leghe (Legh) Plural petitioners, possibly two or more co-heiresses and their...

Petitioners

. . . Leghe (Legh) Plural petitioners, possibly two or more co-heiresses and their husbands, perhaps the daughters of Roger Leech and their husbands.

Name(s)

Leghe (Legh)

Addressees

[Missing]

Nature of request

[This petition is fragmentary and hard to read] . . . Leghe that whereas Henry de Bothe and William Pyrton, administrators of the goods and chattels and buyers (?) of the lands and tenements . . . procured by the said Henry and William, and by favour of John Cokeyn, Sheriff of [Derbyshire] . . . of novel disseisin one messuage and sixteen acres of land in Tideswell in the aforesaid county, which judgment was and is . . . and after the errors in this were pointed out, they had a writ of scire facias awarded against the said . . . favour of the said sheriff and other officers whom they have procured, they purchased against the said petitioners a writ of . . . with the said petitioners that they did not dare to be with them in the redisseisin . . . and the sheriff took a jury . . . of other people living in foreign counties and not of the first jurors as the law required, which . . . by colour of which recovery the said Henry and William came with the said sheriff and others to . . . foreign people, outlaws and other malefactors armed and arrayed for war and entered into the manor of . . . and it is distant from the tenements thus recovered by 4 leagues and by the same colour they entered . . . the time of his . . . and by their arms and hands they dragged him out of the said manor and broke . . . searched the chambers there, and also the bedding and beds of the said petitioners with their daggers and swords . . . wool . . . wheat . . . malt and other goods and chattels to the value of £40 took and carried off . . . Lord Talbot and others to have maintenance and support from him in that matter, the which manor the said Lord Talbot . . . hold with main force against the said petitioners, and thus the said Henry and William vex and harass the said petitioners . . . Roger for . . . embracers, conspirators and others against the said petitioners in this matter, and to delay them from . . . because he made distress within his fee for services due to him, which were in arrears, and they have sued and procured other people of . . . other conspirators and malefactors conspired to indict the said petitioners and the aforesaid co-heiresses, with the intention of . . . held in prison John de Legh, who is the husband of one of the aforesaid co-heiresses and daughters, until . . . of them, in person or by attorney, would never make any claim or suit, individually or together . . . other lands and tenements aforesaid which belonged to the said Roger. May it please your most wise discretions kindly . . . said adversaries by the course of the common law, because of the great support and power of the said Lord . . . favour of the said sheriff and his other ministers and officers aforesaid, procured and retained and of their adherents . . . to be examined on the horrible injuries, crimes and oppressions made and further by authority of . . . for God and as a work of charity.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Tideswell, [Derbyshire].

People mentioned

Henry del Bothe (Booth)

William Pyrton (Pirton)

John Cokeyn, Sheriff of Derbyshire

[John Talbot], Lord Talbot

Roger . . .

John de Legh.

For a related petition see SC 8/94/4662

For a related petition, see SC 8/25/1227