1497 - Richard Legh Shropshire commissioner of peace

Record
Date	1497
Topic	Richard Legh or Leigh a commissioner of the peace for Shropshire.

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Shropshire.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-07-24.

Record

[24 Dec. 1497:]
[Westminster. A Richard Legh or Leigh was on the commission of the peace for Shropshire.]

Source notes

The printed source lists the facts in an appendix but does not cite the original records.

Lists

• Not included in Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

• [Black, J. G.], ed.; [Martin, C. T.], ed.; [Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill], introd. Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. Preserved in the Public Record Office (London; Eyre and Spottiswoode; Edinburgh; Dublin, 1901), pp. 655-56.

Also see

• Persons named Richard at the Lee (links).

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