Source:  Public Record Office: CP 40/907
Title:  Common Pleas Hilary 4 Henry VII
Date:  20 January 1489
Place:  Westminster

Pl’ita apud Westmr coram Thoma Bryan Milite et Socijs suis Justiciarijs d’ni Regis de Banco de trmi’o S’ci Hillarij anno regni Regis Henrici Septimi post conquestum :quarto:

Pleas at Westminster before Thomas Bryan knight and his fellows, justices of the lord king de Banco, for Hilary term in the 4th year of the reign of king Henry the seventh after the Conquest

 

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Joh’es Hancoke Harry p Nich’m Opy attorn’ suu’ op se iiijto die vrsus Joh’em Pluk de Bosenell [1] in Com’ prd’co Husbondman’ de pl’ito quare vi & armis in ip’m Joh’em Hancok Harry apud Bodmyn’ insult’ fecit & ip’m verb’auit vulnrauit & male tract’ & ei tales & tantas minas de vita sua & mutilac’oe membror suor ib’m imposuit & ip’m tantis iniurijs & gauaminibs ib’m affecit q’d idem Joh’es Hancok Harry circa negocia sua ib’m faciend’ ob [metu] mortis & mutilac’ois huiusmodi p magnu’ tempus palam intendere non audebat sicq’ negocia sua prd’ca p idem tempus infecta remanseer’ Et alia enormia &c’ Ad gaue dampnu’ &c’ Et conta pacem d’ni Regis nunc &c’ Et ip’e non ven’ Et sicut plur’ Prec’ fuit vic’ q’d capet eu’ si &c’ saluo &c’ Ita q’d h’eret corpora eor [2] hic ad hunc diem scil’t in Octabis s’ci Hillarij &c’ Et vic’ modo mand’ q’d non est inuent’ &c’ I’o prec’ est vic’ q’d exigi fac’ eu’ de Com’ in Com’ quousq’ &c’ vtlagetr si non &c’ Et si &c’ tunc eu’ capiat Et saluo &c’ Ita q’d h’eat corpus eius hic in Octabis s’ci Joh’is Bapt’e [3 ] Et vnde &c’

[1] or Boseuell
[2] sic
[3] 1 July 1489

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Cornwall

John Hancoke Harry appeared by Nicholas Opy his attorney for a fourth day against John Pluk of Bosenell in the county aforesaid husbondman, in a plea wherefore by force of arms he made an assault upon the said John Hancok Harry at Bodmyn and beat, wounded and ill-treated him, and offered him so many and such threats to his life and of mutilation of his limbs, and gave him such injuries and aggravations, that the same John Hancock Harry for a long time dared not attend openly to his business for fear of his life and suchlike mutilation, and so his business remained undone throughout that time; and (the defendant inflicted) other enormities (upon him) &c. to grave damage &c. and against the peace of the lord now king &c. And (the defendant) has not come; and, as many times, the sheriff had been ordered to take him if &c. (and keep him) safe &c. so that he have his body here on this day, namely, on the octaves of Hilary &c. And the sheriff now reports that (the defendant) is not found &c. Therefore it is ordered the sheriff to cause him to be exacted from county (court) to county until &c. he shall be outlawed if he do not (appear) &c. and if (he appear) &c. then he shall take him and safe &c. so that he have his body here on the octaves of Midsummer; and whereof &c.