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Document type: Petition
Reference: C 1/1489/8
Summary: Petition by Feryby to the chancellor, complaining that Smyth, Helbull and unknown others from Easingwold and Huby came to Stillington on 25 January 1395 and cut down his trees, attacked his tenants and servants, and continue to harass them. He asks that they be summoned into Chancery to answer for these crimes.
Note: Two men named John Helbull were accused of the same crime in the same prebend by another prebendary in 1415. TNA: CP 40/618, rot 430d.
Language: French
Addressee: [Thomas Arundel,] archbishop of York, chancellor of England
Sender: Nicholas Feryby [Ferriby], prebendary of Stillington
People mentioned: Thomas [Smith], son of John Smyth of Easingwold
John Helbull of Huby
John Smyth [Smith]
Place:
Name Authority: York City, York, York, England
Role: Place mentioned
Place:
As Written Hoby
Name Authority: Huby, Sutton on the Forest, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Role: Place mentioned
Place:
As Written Esyngwold
Name Authority: Easingwold, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Role: Place mentioned
Place:
Name Authority: Stillington, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Role: Place mentioned
Date:
Date 1395/01/25
Certainty: inferred
Type: start
Date:
Date 1396/09/25
Certainty: inferred
Type: end


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