Source: Public Record Office: CP 40/717
Title: Common Pleas Easter 18 Henry VI
Date: Easter 1440
Place: Suffolk
Suff'
Rob’tus Edy p attorn’ suu’ op se iiijto die vrsus Joh’em Rendelesham de Rendelesham in Com’ prd’co Frankeleyn’ & Thoma’ Plok de Tunstall in Com’ prd’co yoman de pl’ito q’d vtrq’ eor reddat ei quadraginta solidos quos ei debent & iniuste detinent &c’ Et ip’i non ven’ Et prec’ fuit vic’ q’d sum’ eos &c’ Et vic’ modo mand’ q’d nichil h’ent &c’ I’o capiantr q’d sint hic a die s’ce Trinitatis in xv dies7 &c’
Suffolk
Robert Edy appeared by his attorney for a fourth day against John Rendelesham of Rendelesham in the county aforesaid frankeleyn and Thomas Plok of Tunstall in the county aforesaid yoman, in a plea that each of them render him 40s that they owe him and unjustly detain &c.; and they have not come; and it had been ordered the sheriff to summon them &c.; and the sheriff now reports that they have nothing (in his bailiwick in lands or chattels whereby they might be attached) &c.; therefore let them be taken, to be here on the quindene of Trinity &c.
7 5 June 1440