1479 Bond in 10 marks from Thomas Gaskyn of Hiegham husbandman to Richard Revell yeoman for Gaskyn on "any of his" having interest "of and for" [?in] the death of Richard Walley not to harm Revell by means of the law or otherwise for the death of Walley, dated 2 Jun 19 Edward IV. Bond in £10 from John Hoole of Wolley husbandman to Richard Revell yeoman, for Hoole or any of his children by Kat'yne his wife not to harm Revell (as bond above), dated 2 Jun 19 Edward IV. Bond in £10 from John Walley of Heigham husbandman to Richard Revell yeoman for Walley or any of his having interest of and for the death of Richard Walley his brother not to harm Revell as in bonds above, dated 2 Jun 19 Edward IV. Bond in 10 marks from Richard Darwent of Hiegham tailor to Richard Revell yeoman for Darwent or any of his (as in bonds above), dated 2 Jun 19 Edward IV. [1]
1485 On 7 November, Richard Revell was convicted of high treason against the king. [2] A modern version of the language reports [3] [4]:
Every king, prince and liege lord is bound, in proportion to the loftiness of his estate and pre-eminence, to advance and make available impartial justice [p. vi-276][col. a] in promoting and rewarding virtue and oppressing and punishing vice. Therefore, our sovereign lord, calling to his blessed remembrance this high and great charge enjoined on his royal majesty and estate, not oblivious or unmindful of the unnatural, wicked and great perjuries, treasons, homicides and murders, in shedding infants' blood, with many other wrongs, odious offences and abominations against God and man, and in particular against our said sovereign lord, committed and done by Richard, late duke of Gloucester, calling and naming himself, by usurpation, King Richard III; who, with John, late duke of Norfolk, Thomas, earl of Surrey, Francis Lovell, knight, Viscount Lovell, Walter Devereux, knight, late Lord Ferrers, John, Lord Zouche, Robert Harrington, Richard Charleton, Richard Ratcliffe, William Berkeley of Weoley, Robert Brackenbury, Thomas Pilkington, Robert Middleton, James Harrington, knights, Walter Hopton, William Catesby, Roger Wake, William Sapcote, Humphrey Stafford, William Clerk of Wenlock, Geoffrey St Germain, Richard Watkins, herald of arms, Richard Revell of Derbyshire, Thomas Pulter the younger of the county of Kent, John Walsh otherwise called Hastings, John Kendal, late secretary to the said Richard late duke, John Buck, Andrew Ratt and William Brampton of Burford, on 21 August in the first year of the reign of our said sovereign lord [1485], gathered a great host at Leicester in the county of Leicester, traitorously intending, plotting and conspiring the destruction of the royal person of the king, our sovereign liege lord. And they kept the same host in being, with banners displayed, strongly armed and equipped with all kinds of weapons, such as guns, bows, arrows, spears, glaives, axes and all other weaponry suitable or necessary for giving and advancing a mighty battle against our said sovereign lord, from the said 21 August until the following 22 August, when they led them to a field within the said county of Leicester, and there by premeditated intent traitorously levied war against our said sovereign lord and his true subjects present in his service and assistance under the banner of our said sovereign lord, to the overthrow of this realm and its common weal.
Wherefore, by the advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and of the commons assembled in this present parliament, and by authority of the same, be it enacted, decreed and ordained, judged and declared that the said Richard, late duke of Gloucester, otherwise called King Richard III, John, late duke of Norfolk, Thomas, earl of Surrey, Francis Lovell, knight, Viscount Lovell, Walter Devereux, knight, late Lord Ferrers, John, Lord Zouche, Robert Harrington, Richard Charleton, Richard Ratcliffe, William Berkeley of Weoley, Robert Brackenbury, Thomas Pilkington, Robert Middleton, James Harrington, Walter Hopton, William Catesby, Roger Wake, William Sapcote of the county of Huntingdon, Humphrey Stafford, William Clerk of Wenlock, Geoffrey St Germain, Richard Watkins, herald of arms, Richard Revell of Derbyshire, Thomas Pulter of the county of Kent, John Walsh otherwise called Hastings, John Kendal, late secretary of the said Richard late duke, John Buck, Andrew Ratt and William Brampton shall stand and be convicted and attainted of high treason, and disabled and dispossessed of all honour, estate, dignity and pre-eminence, and the names of the same, and forfeit to our said sovereign lord and his heirs all the castles, manors, lordships, hundreds, franchises, liberties, privileges, advowsons, nominations, presentations, lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, portions, annuities, pensions, rights, hereditaments, goods, chattels and debts, of which they, or anyone else [col. b] to their use, or to the use of any of them, were seised or [memb. 7] possessed on the said 21 August or at any time since, within the realm of England, Ireland, Wales or Calais, or their marches, in fee-simple, fee-tail or for term of life or lives.
1486 August 7. Several people were commissioned to enquire "of the goods and chattles forfeited to the king by ... Richard Revyll, late of the county of Derby, ... on or from August 21 last." [5]
1487/8 January 28 [3 Henry VII] "Humphrey Stafford and Richard Revell attainted. Inquisition, virtute officii. By an act of the Parliament held at Westminster on 7 November, 1 Henry VII, they were attainted of high treason, and forfeited to the king all the castles, lordships, and manors &c. whereof they were seised and possessed in fee on 21 August, 1 Henry VII. On the said 21 August the said Humphrey Stafford was seised in fee to his own use of the under-mentioned messuages &c. in Hone, and the said Richard Revell was seised in fee to his own use of the under-mentioned messuages &c. in Ogaston, Brakenthwayte, Whetecroft and Le Hill. James Blount, knight, has taken the issues and profits of the premises since the said 21 August. Derby. 2 messuages, 140 acres land and 40 acres meadow in Hone, worth 4 marks. A messuage, 200 acres land, 40 acres meadow, 30 acres wood, 40 acres pasture in Ogaston and Brakenthwayte in the parish of Morton, a messuage, 30 acres land 10 acres meadow and 20 acres pasture in Whetecroft in the parish of Criche, and 8s. rent in Le Hill in the parish of Shirlond, worth 8 marks. C. Series II. Vol. 23. (75.)" [6]
1488 May 4. Grant in tail male to James Blount, knight, ... also all lands in Howne, Hoggeston Hall, Brakenfield and Whetecroft, co. Derby forfeited by Humphrey Stafford, esquire, and Richard Revell." [7]
1488/89 January. "To the king our sovereign lord; your poor and true subject Richard Revell of your county of Derby, yeoman, humbly prays your highness of your most abundant grace, that where your said poor petitioner, at your first parliament, by an act made in the same, was attainted of treason, and that he should forfeit all his lands and tenements and other hereditaments of which he, or anyone else to his use, was seised on 21 August last before the same parliament [1485], as appears at greater length in the said act of attainder; (fn. 27) that it would please your said grace, by way of charity, that it be enacted, by the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons assembled in this present parliament, and by authority of the same, that your said poor subject be able in your laws to sue and be sued, and to be restored and enabled henceforth to all his lands, tenements and other hereditaments in your said laws, in as good a degree and condition as he was before the said act of attainder; and that the said act of attainder made against him shall be void and of no force or effect in your laws. Saving to all your liege people their right, title and interest as they or any of them had, should or might have had if the said act of attainder had never been had. Provided always that this act of restitution shall not extend or be prejudicial to any person or persons with regard to the taking of any goods, issues or profits of any lands or tenements between the said act of attainder and this restitution." The resolution: "Soit faite comme il est desire. [Let it be done as it is desired.]" [8] [9]
Research Notes:
"Thomas of Higham's youngest son, Richard, married Maria Lee (Marie de Lee). Richard is said possibly to have been a Royal Official at Tutbury,67 was knighted at the Battle of Bosworth on August 22nd 1485. Following the battle of Bosworth 'Richard Revell of Derbyshire' was attainted in November 1485,68 or the following January,69 and on February 1st 1488 his lands were forfeit to Sir James Blount who was made 'steward of the Honour of Tutbury, in Staffordshire and Derbyshire, constable of the castle there'.70 He was also referred to in Parliament on December 10th 1485. 71 This event and the lands forfeited to Sir James Blount are described as follows 'On the death of his brother John Lord Mountjoy he was granted the wardship and marriage of the son (January 24, 1488) (ib. p. 230). A few days later (February 1, 1488) he received a great grant of lands, comprising no fewer than five manors, with other lands, in Warwickshire, Leicestershire, and North- ants, part of the forfeited estates of William Catesby, Humfrey Stafford, Richard Revell, and Roger Wake'.72 [10]
[1] Derbyshire Record Office, Ref. No.: D37/MF/1, [Derbyshire_Record_Office].
[2] "Case on Behalf of Alfred Joseph Lord Stourton, claiming to be the senior coheir of the Barony of Segrave," Segrave Peerage in the House of Lords (London: Hodgson and Son, 1876), 135-136, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox, eds., Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504 (British History Online, originally published by Boydell Press, 2005), [BritishHistoryOnline].
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[8] Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox, eds., Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504 (British History Online, originally published by Boydell Press, 2005), [BritishHistoryOnline].
[9] Chris Given-Wilson, ed., Parliament rolls of medieval England, 1275-1504, Vol. 16, Henry VII, 1489-1504 (Boydell Press, 2005), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[10] Mike Clifford, Part 4. The Revells of Derbyshire to ca 1650 (2014), [2014 Version 3 pdf].