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Details of SC 8/277/13828
Reference: SC 8/277/13828
Description:
Petitioners: Richard Fitz William, esquire; Elizabeth Fitz William, wife of Richard Fitz William and daughter of Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Clarell.
Name(s): Fitz William; Fitz William, Richard; Elizabeth
Addressees: Commons in Parliament.
Nature of request: Richard and Elizabeth Fitz William request that whereas Clarell, in her widowhood, had retired to the monastery of Hampole where one of her daughters was professed, when on 29 April 28 Henry VI [1450] Pilkington and over 40 others, arrayed for war, broke into the monastery of Hampole to ravish Elizabeth, entered the cloister and violently assaulted Herkyngton and Folgeham, and by force dragged Elizabeth from the monastery to Lancashire where they kept her for a long time, that a writ of proclamation out of Chancery be granted ordering the sheriff of Yorkshire on pain of £300 to proclaim in the neighbouring town of Pontefract at four courts to be held there that Pilkington should come into the King's Bench on the octave of the Trinity next to answer for these crimes so that judgment can be given, and if he does not appear he will be attainted and judgment will be made for the plaintiffs.
Nature of endorsement: [On face] It should be sent to the lords.[On dorse] The King wills and grants this petition as requested, save that the writ of proclamation to be made upon the same be returnable at the octave of the Trinity in the year 1454.
Places mentioned: Hampole, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; Lancashire; Pontefract, [West Riding of] Yorkshire.
People mentioned: Elizabeth [Clarell], widow of Thomas Clarell; Thomas Clarell, squire; Prioress, nuns and convent of Hampole; John Pilkyngton (Pilkington), esquire; Margaret Herkyngton, nun of Hampole; Joan Folgeham, nun of Hampole.
Note: The endorsement notes that the writ is returnable on the octave of the Trinity in the year 1454; the petition probably dates to earlier in this year or to late 1453. Agnes Clarel was prioress of Hampole from 1452.
Date: [1454]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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