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Details of SC 8/103/5109
Reference: SC 8/103/5109
Description:
Petitioners: Commons of England.
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The petitioners seek grace and pardon for Geoffrey de Workesley in certain important matters. They state that he was long established in the estate of esquire and of knight to the king's father, from whom he took his knighthood at the battle of Spain [Najera], and to the king's grandfather and to the king in his wars, in which he was taken and not ransomed nor released before this hour, suffering great harm, and is in debt and has no movables. Lately Geoffrey and one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas de Felton were married for his advancement, and for years the marriage continued for the great trust he had in his servant Thomas Pulle, in times that he went overseas in the king's service, assigning to Thomas attendance upon his wife for safety while he was absent. Pulle has been false and traitorous to his master and dishonoured his wife in his absence, and roused the wife to falsely make a divorce, by which falseness and treason Geoffrey has lost advancement, marriage and a great heritage, as is openly known since their meeting at Reading at the last council in the dispute that erupted between them in which Thomas was wounded, of which injury he was healed (as it seemed to many), and subsequently espoused the said wife, [but] now Thomas is dead and his friends wish to impeach Geoffrey that he died from the said injury.
Nature of endorsement: [None.]
Places mentioned: [Najera, Spain]; Spain; Reading, [Berkshire].
People mentioned: Geoffrey de Workesley; Edward [of Woodstock], Prince of Wales; Edward III, King of England; Thomas de Felton; Thomas Pulle.
Note: Dated on the guard c. 1381, but the reference to a great council at Reading seems to place this shortly after the meeting there in December 1389.
Date: [c. 1390]
Related material:

For another petition concerning Geoffrey de Workesley see SC 8/146/7276

For transcript, see no.12 of PRO 31/7/107
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 2085
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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