1378 - John Pety of Staffordshire

Record
Date	1378
Topic	John Pety and others falsely indicted by their enemies.

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Staffordshire.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-06-10.

Record

[15 Apr. 1378:]
To the sheriff of Stafford. Writ of supersedeas, by mainprise of John Burgyloun, William Walsale, Nicholas Hampton and Robert Russell of Staffordshire, in favour of Richard de Burmyncham clerk, John Filot clerk, John de Ibstokc, John Pety and John Frensheman indicted, by procurement of their enemies as it is shown on their behalf, for abetting in the death of John Bowyere of Lichefeld slain by Thomas Rogerisservant Marchal of Walsale, who is not yet convicted, and for harbouring the said Thomas, and the said Richard for harbouring the other defendants, according to the statute of Westminster containing that those so indicted shall be replevisable until the principals be convicted.^[1]

Source notes

Membrane 7d of the Close Roll for 1 Richard II. Marginal note: "April 15. Westminster". Italics as in printed source. Index of printed source has cross reference to 'Pety' under Petit.^[2]

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

[Bird, W.H.B., ed.; Flower, C.T. ed.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.]. Calendar of the Close Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office: Richard II. Vol. I. A.D. 1377-1381 (London and Cardiff; Edinburgh; Dublin, 1914), p. 133.

Also see

Persons named Little John (links).

Notes

Records links1301-1400texts

[1] [Bird, W.H.B., ed.; Flower, C.T. ed.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.]. Calendar of the Close Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office: Richard II. Vol. I. A.D. 1377-1381 (London and Cardiff; Edinburgh; Dublin, 1914), p. 133.

[2] [Bird, W.H.B., ed.; Flower, C.T. ed.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.]. Calendar of the Close Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office: Richard II. Vol. I. A.D. 1377-1381 (London and Cardiff; Edinburgh; Dublin, 1914), p. 706; and see p. 707 s,n, 'Pety, John'.

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