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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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CHAPTER TWENTY
NICHOLAS
DE PESHALL
Eighth
in Ancestry
Section 1, Nicholas de Peshall-Section 2, Ancestry of Helen Malpas-Section 3, Richard de Peshall.
SECTION
1.
8.
NICHOLAS DE PESHALL, son of Sir Thomas de Peshall,
Chapter 19, Section 1, married Helen, daughter and coheir of Hugh de Malpas, Chapter 20, Section
2. Child:
1.
*7. HUGH DE PESHALL, Chapter 21, Section 1.
Nicholas
de Peshall was sheriff of Staffordshire, 14
Henry VI (1436). He was actively engaged in the warfare then rampant in
Staffordshire-Shropshire. Of course he was an
important factor in the party composed of his family and their
associates. His brother Richard appears to have been the family leader in
this generation, but Nicholas was as deeply concerned as anyone. To get
the full story the reader will have to take up all that was written in
the preceding chapter, and also the story of Richard Peshall
in this chapter, section 3.
The
seizure of the Crown by Henry IV. (1399) divided Staffordshire into two
camps. A violent affray took place on the Trent. Sir Robert Malveysin
of Rid-ware armed in his favor and slew the Lord of Hansacre,
who had joined the Earl of Northumberland's rebellion. [Counties of England,
by P. H. Ditchfield, vol. 1, page 222.]
As
a fact the war between the house of Lancaster and Northumberland, which
later developed into the War of the Roses, continued to divide the gentry
of Staffordshire for a long time after the accession of the Lancaster
dynasty, and as a result the county was a place where the factions were
divided upon the most marked lines of political and family division, and
where a considerable number were openly hostile to the reigning king.
Though
the last few years of the reign of Henry IV. were
peaceable so far as the Kingdom as a whole was concerned, this was far
from being the case with Staffordshire. What was practically civil war
broke out there early in 1408. Hugh Erdeswick,
Thos. Swynnerton, and the brothers Myners raised men in Cheshire, and Staffordshire to kill Sir
John Blount, Constable of Newcastle, who was making some sort of effort
to put down the robbery and murder in which they indulged. Sir John
Blount was son and heir of that Sir Walter Blount who, clad in the King's
surcoat, was slain by Douglas on the field of Shrewsbury. On one
side were the officers of the Duchy of Lancaster and of the Crown; while Venables, Delves, Stanley, and Edgerton on the other side
supported Erdeswick and the Myners.
All the latter were adherents of the Earl of Northumberland, and Hugh Erdeswick of Sandon headed
a faction which particularly sought to
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