Catalogue description Petitioners: Adam de Pesale. Name(s): de Pesale, Adam Addressees: King and...

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Details of SC 8/146/7271
Reference: SC 8/146/7271
Description:
Petitioners: Adam de Pesale.
Name(s): de Pesale, Adam
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Adam de Pesale states that when he was returning from the King's coronation, Hugh de Wrottesley lay in wait for him at a place called Foxlydiate to kill him. He also lies in wait for Adam's servants and tenants of Shifnal, so that they do not dare to work or go to market, and stole some oxen from William Barker, tenant of Adam de Pesale, at Wrottesley, and held them until he made fine with him. His retinue are also outlaws and malefactors from Cheshire and Lancashire. Adam requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement: A writ is to be issued under the great seal to Hugh de Wrottesley, to appear before the council on the morrow of Martinmas next, on pain of £300, to answer to this bill.
Places mentioned: London; Foxhunte Ledeyate (Foxlydiate), Worcestershire; Shifnal, [Shropshire]; Wrottesley, [Staffordshire]; Cheshire; Lancashire.
People mentioned: Hugh de Wrottesley; William Barker, tenant of Adam de Pesale.
Note: The writ issued in response to this petition, SC 8/146/7270, is dated at Westminster, 30 October, 1 Richard II (1377).
Date: [1377]
Related material:

For another petition from Hugh de Wrottesley, see SC 8/146/7282

For the writ issued as the result of this petition, see SC 8/146/7270

For a counter-petition from Hugh de Wrottesley, see SC 8/146/7269

For transcript, see no.106 of PRO 31/7/110
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

A History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, G. Wrottesley, (Societe Jersiaise, Bulletin, vol.III, pp, 1903), pp.147-8 (abstracts and discussion of this and related documents)

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