1439-08-21, Windsor

General pardon and release of all securities of the peace forfeited by the following or any of them on 12 January, for a fine to be paid at the receipt of the Exchequer by the first-named, to John Cornewaill of Hampthill or Ampthill, co. Bedford, knight, alias lord of Faunhop, Richard Cornewaill of Ampthill, esquire, Baldwin Seintgeorge of Bedford, gentilman, John Padyngton of Ampthill, gentilman, John Skydmore of Ampthill, gentilman, John Gerveys of Maldon,-co. Bedford, gentilman, Thomas Hasilden of Goldyngton, co. Bedford, gentilman, John Portsoill or Pertsoill of Risle, co. Bedford, gentilman, William Portsoill of the same, gentilman, John Glove of Southyevell, co. Bedford, gentilman, Nicholas Ravenhull of Stacheden, co. Bedford, gentilman, John Burton, parson of the church of Crowle, co. Buckingham, clerk, James Fynauns of Husbourne Crowle, co. Bedford, yoman, Thomas Moreton of Woburn, co. Bedford, yoman, Thomas Hamond of Bedford, yoman, John Hamond of Bydenham brigge ende, co. Bedford, yoman, William Cook of Hampthill, yoman, John Waggestaff of the same, yoman, James Moston of Bedford, yoman, William Pynchester of Ampthill, yoman, Richard, late servant of John Wenlok of Ampthill, yoman, Henry Caunfer of Bedford, yoman, Peter de la Temple of Ampthill, yoman, Thomas Brid of the same, yoman, John Ferrour of Synelesho, co. Bedford, yoman, John Stourmyn of Hampthill, yoman, Patrick Irisshman of the same, yoman, Peter Frenshman of the same, yoman, Matthew Walshman of the same, yoman, Henry Whiteldale of the same, yoman, Thomas Dalton of Dunstaple, co. Bedford, yoman, John Loryng of Wotton, co. Bedford, yoman, Henry Stacy of Woburn, co. Bedford, yoman, William Nassh, late of Herlyngdon, co. Bedford, yoman, John Nassh of the same, yoman, John Dawes, late of Ampthill, yoman, William Martyn of Everesholt, co. Bedford, yoman, Laurence Jurdon of Fenystratford, co. Buckingham, yoman, Thomas Archer of Edlesburgh, co. Buckingham, yoman, Richard Jurdon or Jordon of Everesholt, co. Bedford, yoman, John Caldecote of Merston, co. Bedford, yoman, John Frankelan of the same, yoman, William Palfoot of Litlyngton, co. Bedford, yoman, Laurence Pelle of Ampthill, yoman, Thomas late servant of John Radewell of the same, yoman ; also John Wenlok of Somerys, co. Bedford, esquire, William Lowdesop of Wodehull, co. Bedford, esquire, William Pekke of le Hoo, late of Coupull, co. Bedford, gentilman, Robert de Clynton of Estenore, co. Worcester, gentilman, Thomas Reynes of Merston, co. Bedford, esquire, William Strekeland of Ampthill, gentilman, John Hamewell of Yeakesle, co. Huntingdon, gentilman, Adam Alford of Ampthill, gentilman, Thomas Kempston of Bedford, gentilman, John Gryffyn of Ampthill, gentilman, and John Gyst of London, gentilman, for all offences committed on 20 January last; Thomas Wawton, John Enderby, John Fitz and Henry Etwell, justices of the peace and of oyer and terminer for the county of Bedford, and Thomas Stratton, undersheriff of the county, having certified that when they had come to hold a certain session of the peace on the date mentioned at Bedford, the said John Cornewaill and the rest of the first forty-five named in the pardon, with others unspecified, came upon them into the judgment hall (pretorium) at Bedford, armed and in riotous manner, and insulted the said justices and others of the king's lieges there, as in the said certification remaining of record with the king more fully may appear. On the 10th of February following the said justices and undersheriff were examined severally upon oath in the Star Chamber at Westminster, touching the contents of their certification, in the presence of Humphrey, . Parr 1. 247 duke of Gloucester, John, bishop of Bath and Wells, the chancellor, Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury, Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, Ralph Cromwell, knight, the treasurer, and other lords of the council, as in & certain act of the matter, remaining of record among the acts of the king's council, more fully appears. And, although upon perusal of the certification and the examinations divers discrepancies appear amongst the different articles of the certification and from the examinations the conduct of the said John and the others seems to have been not without excuse, yet they cannot legally contravene or deny the said certification, though they assert it to be the untruthful issue of anger and malice, which indeed, from the examination, seems likely. By p.s.