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| Thomas Merkes, Bishop of Carlisle. |
| Merkes, Thomas |
| Chancellor. |
| Bishop of Carlisle |
| Thomas, bishop of Carlisle, who is overseas in the King's service, requests that a writ be directed to the sheriff of Westmorland to cause certain persons to come before the King's council to answer for their actions and to receive justice, namely Gnayth, Thyrn, Boys, Thompson, Hothom, Ibbotson, Blackwell, Strickland, Richardson and Barber, who came with force and arms to Penrith and lay in wait for Richmond, assaulted him and drove him from Penrith to Greystoke and would have killed him had he not escaped, and Thomas, Alexander and William Damson, who shortly afterwards came with force and arms to St Mary's church in Carlisle and would have assaulted Richmond had he not escaped, and lay in wait for him for a week until they found him in Carlisle and beat and wounded him. |
| The parties named within have a day at Shrewsbury on the quinzaine of St Hilary.[In a later hand] 21 Richard II [1397]. |
| Carlisle, [Cumberland]; Botchergate, Carlisle, [Cumberland]; Penrith, [Cumberland]; Greystoke, [Cumberland]; Westmorland; Shrewsbury, [Shropshire]. |
| John de Gnayth; William de Thyrn; Henry Boys; William Thomson (Thompson); John Hothom; John Ibbotson; Richard de Blakwol (Blackwell); Richard de Strikland (Strickland); John Richardson of Botchergate; Robert Barbour (Barber) the younger of Carlisle; Thomas Richemond (Richmond), bishop's clerk and registrar; Thomas Damson, chaplain; Alexander Damson, servant; William Damson; sheriff of Westmorland. |
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