Sir Richard de Peshale

Sheriff of Shropshire 1374-1376

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1386.

Place of Death: unknown.

Woodger gives 1388 in his article on Sir Richard’s brother Adam, but the Chancery case involving debt below (C 131/36/5) shows that Richard was dead by 6 May 1386.

Relationships

Father: Adam de Peshale.

Mother: uncertain.

This relationship is given by the Bridgemans. It is confirmed by the fines given below.

Spouse: Joan Chetwynd.

This relationship is given by the Bridgemans. It is confirmed by the fines given below.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sir Thomas Peshale married (1) Philippa Bennet; married (2) Alice Knightley.

Evidence

from the Feet of Fines (abstracted at Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy):

County: Staffordshire. Shropshire.

Place: Westminster.

Date: Two weeks from St Hilary, 17 Edward III [27 January 1343].

Parties: John de Chetewynde, knight, querent, and Reynold de Chetewynde, the parson of the church of Chetewynde, deforciant.

Property: The manor of Weston' by Assheleye in the county of Stafford and the manor of Chetewynde and the advowson of the church of the same manor in the county of Shropshire.

Action: Plea of covenant.

Agreement: John has acknowledged the manors and advowson to be the right of Reynold, as those which Reynold has of his gift. For this, Reynold has granted to John the manors and advowson and has rendered them to him in the court, to hold to John, of the chief lords for the life of John. And after the decease of John the manors and advowson shall remain to Richard, son of Adam de Peshale, and Joan, daughter of Reynold, son of the aforesaid John de Chetewynde, and the heirs of their bodies, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to the heirs of the body of Joan, (2) to William, son of the aforesaid John, and the male heirs of his body and (3) to the right heirs of John.

Warranty: Warranty by Reynold and his heirs.

De Banco, Hillary, 32 E. III

Staffordshire. John Botetourt, Chivaler, sued Richard de Peshale and Adam, his brother, Philip de Chetwynd, the parson of the Church of Mere, Thomas Huget, of Aston, and John de Elarton, of Aston, for forcibly entering his free warren at Mere, and cutting down trees to the value of 100s., and chasing and taking from it hares and rabbits, partridges and pheasants of warren (“phasianos de warenna”), and for beating, wounding, and ill-treating his servants, so that he lost their services for a length of time. None of the defendants appeared, and the Sheriff was ordered to distrain the said Richard, who had found bail, and to arrest the others, and to produce them at three weeks from Easter. m. 157.

Fine (of mixed counties) (Wrottesley, p. 187):

On the Quindene of St. Hillary. 17 E. III.

Between John de Chetewynde, Chivaler, complainant, and Reginald de Chetewynde, Parson of the Church of Chetewynde, deforciant of the manor of Weston, near Assheleye, in co. Stafford, and of the manor of Chetewynde, and of the advowson of the Church of the same in co. Salop.

John acknowledged the said manors and advowson to be the right of Reginald, for which Reginald granted them to John for his life, with remainder to Richard, son of Adam de Peshale, and Joan, daughter of Reginald, son of the said John de Chetewynde and to their issue, and failing such, to the issue of the said Joan, and failing such issue, to William, son of the said John and his male issue, and failing such, to the right heirs of the said John for ever.

On the Quindene of Hillary. 17 E. III.

Between John de Chetewynde, Chivaler, complainant, and Reginald de Chetewynde, Parson of the Church of Chetewynde, deforciant of the manor of Houle, excepting a mill in co. Salop, and of six messuages, two carucates of land, and 8d. rent in Thenford and Denchesworthe, in co. Berks, and of sixteen messuages, six virgates of land, six acres of pasture, and two acres of wood in Baxterleye, in co. Warwick.

John acknowledged the said manor and tenements to be the right of Reginald, for which the said Reginald granted them to John for his life, with remainder to William, son of the said John and his heirs for ever.

from the National Archives catalogue:

C 241/157/136

A certificate of statute merchant and statute staple, dated 11 May 1375, shows that the creditor, Richard de Peshale, knight, held fees in Chetwynd and Pychford, Bradford Hundred, Salop.

C 131/36/5

6 May 1386

Debtor: Richard de Pershall {Peshale} [Pirehill Hundred, Staffs.], knight.

Creditor: John de Ibstone {Ipstones} knight.

Amount: £1000.

Writ to sheriff of Staffordshire sent by Chancery.

Endorsement: Humphrey de Stafford, Sheriff, replies that Richard Perhsall is dead. All his lands and chattels have been extended as in the inquisition and have been seized into the King’s hands.

Note: Date given for return to Chancery: 1/7/1386. M.2: Inquisition made before Humphrey de Stafford, Sheriff of Staffs, and Tean {Tene} [Totmanslow Hundred, Staffs] on Wed., 20/6/1386. Richard Pershall had on the day of the recognisance a messuage, two carucates of land in Horseley [Staffs] worth 26s. 8d. after expenses; one messuage and one carucate of land in Rule worth 20s. after expenses; a messuage and a carucate of land and rents worth 2s. in Bishops Offley [Pirehill Hundred, Staffs.] worth in all 20 s.; a messuage and a carucate of land in Adbaston worth 13s. 4d, and annual rents worth 20m. from the lands and tenements of John de Draycote in Staffs., and a messuage in Stafford worth 6s. 8d, and a messuage worth 4s.; a meadow in Tillington worth … and at Weston next to Charlton worth 40s… and four tenements … and other tenements … and a cottage in Stafford. Chattels: 200 sheep worth £10 [12d. each] and 12 oxen worth £6.

C 131/205/34

An inquisition and return dated 8 February 1389 shows that the debtor, Richard de Peshale, knight, held fees in Hopton, Pirehilll Hundred, and Patshull, Seisdon Hundred, both in Staffordshire. The creditor was John de Ipstones, knight, and the amount was £1000. The writ was delivered too late to be executed.

from “Extracts from the Plea Rolls”

(p. 8)

21.E.III

Staff. Richard, son of Adam de Peshale who had been indicted before Simon de Ruggeleye, the Coroner, for feloniously killing Thomas, son of Adam de Halghton of Suggenhulle, Taillour, at Eccleshale in 17 E. III was acquitted. m. 15, dorso.

(p. 24)

6 R. II

Cestria. Richard de Pesale, chivaler, and Joan his wife, sued Nicholas de Tittelegh for two parts of the manor of Tittelegh, and they sued Richard de Clayford and Margery his wife for a third part of the same manor, which Philip Burnel had given to Thomas de Tittelegh and Joan his wife and to the heirs of their bodies in the reign of Edward I, and which should descend to them, and they gave this descent: --

Thomas de Tittelegh = Joan, temp. E.I.

I

Elena.

I

Reginald.

I

Joan = Richard de Peshale.

The defendants asked for a view and the suit was adjourned to the next Court. m. 17, dorso.

7 R. II.

Cestria. Richard de Pesale and Joan sued Nicholas de Tittlelegh and Richard de Clayford and Margery his wife for the manor of Tittelegh and repeated their plea as above. Nicholas de Tittelegh appeared in person and denied that Philip Burnel had granted the manor as stated by the plaintiff and appealed on this issue to a jury. Richard and Margery stated that one Thomas de Tittelegh was lately seized of the manor, and had taken the said Margery to wife and they had issue one Joan, and Thomas had died, and Joan had married one John de Mokleston, and they had endowed her out of the manor, and Thomas and Joan had both died, and that the reversion of the dower belonged to Nicholas de Tittelegh, the brother and heir of Thomas, without whom they could not answer to the writ, and she asked for the aid of the Court to enforce the attendance of the said Nicholas. A day was given to the parties at the next Court. m. 1.

(p. 25)

9 R. II.

Richard de Peshale, chivaler, together with a number of other people including Adam de Peshale, chivaler, and Humfrey de Peshale, was charged with harboring a murderer. Hamon de Peshale, chivaler, and others became bail to produce them. The murderer was pardoned.

from the History of Standon:

(p. 78)

Court of Staundon, held on Monday the eve of the Feast of St. Chad the Bishop, in the 35th year of the reign of King Edward the Third after the Conquest.

…. Richard de Peshale, knight, lord of Weston, who owes suit at court and came not, therefore he is distrained to come at the next court to do suit of court, and afterwards to do fealty: and he did fealty and he has a day to acknowledge his service at the next court, and he acknowledged suit of court. (This seems to be cancelled.) Richard de Peshale, knight, did fealty, and acknowledged to hold of the lord of the vill of Weston near Mere, for one knight’s fee, rendering therefore yearly 12d. at the usual terms, and doing suit at the court of Standon.

Wedgwood notes that in 1371, an order was issued for Richard’s arrest as a “common smiter of monks and other religious.”

References

Bridgeman, George T.O., Bridgeman, Ernest R.O., and Charles G. O. Bridgeman. “History of the Manor and Parish of Weston-under-Lizard, in the County of Stafford” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society, Volume XX [Volume II, New Series], 1899)

Parshall, Horace Field. The Parshall Family, A.D. 870-1913: a collection of historical records and notes to accompany the Parshall pedigree. (London, 1915).

Salt, Edward. The History of Standon: parish, manour, and church, with two hundred years of registers. (1888).

Wedgwood, Josiah C. “Staffordshire Parliamentary History” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (1917).

Woodger, L.S. “Peshale, Sir Adam (d. 1419), of Peshale and Shifnal, Salop, and Weston-under-Lizard, Staffs.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993).

Woodger, L.S. “Peshale, Hamon (d.c. 1398), of Salop.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993).

Wrottesley, G. “The Final Concords, or Feet of Fines, Staffordshire, A.D. 1327 to A.D. 1547” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society,Volume XI, (1890)

“Extracts from the Plea Rolls” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society,Volume XII, (1891).