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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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