Sir Thomas Peshale

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

These relationships are given by Bridgeman (p. 74). The relationship with Sir Richard is confirmed by the second extract from the Plea Rolls given below, and the 1383 presentation to the church of Cleobury North cited by Eyton (3:30) (“Thomas de Plaidwyk, late Vicar of Lilleshall, who was admitted here on presentation of Thomas de Peshale, son and heir of Sir Richard de Peshale, Knight.”).

Spouse: Philippa Bennet.

The 1614 Visitation of Staffordshire (p. 240) gives the name Philippa. Pearsall (p. 727) cites a deed "Script. Fam. per Rev. John Peshall", quoted below, which gives the surname Bennet. Parshall (p. 78) gives her as Philippa daughter of Richard Bennet de Bottesle, without giving a source. The same is given by Philippa Swinnerton Hughes in Notes and Queries (3rd Series, vol. VI., September 10, 1864). Pearsall also cites a "Harleian Manuscript" giving Richard's date of death as 11 August 1425.

Spouse: Alice Knightley.

This relationship is given by the 1614 Visitation of Staffordshire (p. 240). It is not clear to me how much trust to put into such a late source. See the Commentary section below.

Children (by Philippa):

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

Richard Peshale married Margaret Malpas.

Nicholas Peshale married Helen Malpas.

Children (by Alice):

Humphrey Peshale married Matilda Swinnerton.

Evidence

a deed (Pearsall p. 727):

Sciant p'sentes & future q'd rot Ricus Peshall & Joana ux. domus & fil. nostro Thomas Mil & ux. Philipa Beneytt terras & tenementa nostra in Knighton & Cavershwell in Staff.

from the Chetwynd Chartulary:

Thomas was a witness to a grant, Easter Saturday, 1397.

from “Extracts from the Plea Rolls”

(p. 30)

Gaol Delivery made at the Castle of Shrewsbury before Robert de Charlton and John Hulle, Justices assigned, etc., on the Wednesday after the Feast of St. James. 19 R.II. [1395]

Salop. Nicholas de Peshale, the Rector of Eggemondon, and Robert de Peshale, of Knyghton, who had been indicted before Thomas Neuport, and his Fellow Justices of the Peace, for aiding and abetting the escape from the King’s Prison in the Castle of Shrewsbury, of Thomas Peshale, knight, Adam Peshale, the son of Richard Peshale, chivaler, Nicholas son of the same Richard Peshale, and Richard, the servant of Thomas Peshale, chivaler, on the Sunday after the Feast of Corpus Christi, 17 R.II, and which indictment had been returned before the Justices, together with the outlawry promulgated against the said Thomas Peshale, Adam, Nicholas, and Richard, the servant of Thomas, surrendered and stated they were not guilty and appealed to a jury which acquitted them. m. 52.

(p. 39):

Coram Rege. Mich., 4 H. IV. [1402/3]

Salop.

Thomas Peshale, chivaler, who had been committed to the King’s gaol in Shrewsbury Castle, by Richard Talbot, one of the Justices of the Peace, for divers felonies, and who had feloniously broken out of prison on the Sunday after the Feast of Corpus Christi 17 R. II, surrendered at this term and was committed to the Marshalsea, and being brought before the Court he produced Letters Patent dated 5 May, 21 R. II, pardoning him for all felonies, etc., perpetrated before the last day of the previous January and he prayed he might be released, and the said letters having been inspected, he was discharged from custody. m. 13, Rex.

The Letters Patent described him as Thomas Peshale, chivaler, son of Richard Peshale, chivaler.

Commentary

Bridgeman (p. 73), citing the Huntbache MS. at Wrottesley, relates a 1438 settlement by Joan, widow of William Lee. She had no estate from her husband, so she settled her estates “upon those from whom they came to her”. The settlement was upon [1] herself for life; [2] after her decease, to Richard Peshall, the son of Humphrey Peshall, and the heirs of his body; [3] for want of such issue, to Richard Peshall, the son of Sir Thomas Peshall, Knight. The property was apparently the manor of Little Wyrley in Staffordshire.

It is not quite clear to me how Joan connects with Alice, or if Alice’s connection to the Peshale’s needs to be reconsidered.

References

Bridgeman, G.T.O. “The History of the Parish of Church Eaton and its members, Wood Eaton, Onslow, High Onn, Little Onn, Shushions, and Marston” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society,Volume IV, Part II (1883).

“The Chetwynd Chartulary” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society,Volume XII; 1891).

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

Pearsall, Clarence E., Pearsall, Hettie May, and Harry L. Neall. History and Genealogy of the Pearsall Family in England and America (two volumes; 1928).

The Visitations of Staffordshire in 1614 and 1663-4 in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society, Volume V part 2 (1884).