I do not however agree with Prynn in supposing that this petition was grounded on a violent assault which was made, during the sitting of this Parliament, on one Richard Chedder, a menial servant attending upon Sir Thomas Brooke, one of the Knights for the county of Somerset; the subject-matter of it is totally different, and complains only of Arrests or Imprisonment by virtue of legal process in Actions of Debt, Account, Trespass, or other Contract; besides in Chedder's Case there was a particular petition of the Commons in his behalf, which states a very different offence, and prays a very different remedy.
7. It is as follows:
Rot. Pari. 5 Hen, IV. N° 78[1].
' Item priont les Communes, q come toutz les Seigneurs, ' Chivalers, Citezeins, & Burgeis, ove lour servantz venantz a ' Parlement, p brief le Roy, " en venant, demurant, & retour- " nant" ils sont soutz vostre protection Roiall, & plusours mes- ' chiefs & diseases sovent aveignont as ditz Seigneurs, Chiva- ' lers, Citeins, Burgeys, & lour servantz meynales, en temps ' avan dit, come p murdre, mayhemes, & bateries g gentz ' gisantz en agaite, ou autrement, dount due remedie n'est un- ' qore purveu; & noment en espal en c'est present Parlement ' de le orrible batterie & malfait q'est fait a Richard Cheddre, ' Esquier, q fuist venuz a y cest present Parlement ovesq Sire ' Thomas Brook, Chivaler, un des Chivalers pur le Counte de ' Somers' & meynall' ove luy, par Johan. Salage, autrement ' appelle Savage, dount i'avant dit Richard Cheddre est ' emblemiz et mahemiz, & tout sur le peril de mort: qe pleise ' ordeiner remedie sur ceste matire, sufhsant remedie, " & pur " autres tieux cases semblables ensi," q le punissement de luy
- ↑ Vol. III. page 542.
