[The petition is badly stained and difficult to follow].The petitioners request remedy as the rebels have caused raised the commons against the wealthy of the town and assaulted the houses of the great of the town, and taken ransoms. In addition they have taken the common seal and sealed obligations in great sums, and imprisoned Buddeby who had sued a bill against them though he was under the king's protection.
Appointment of attorneys in case of John Rigdon et al versus Richard de Middelton et al
Rigdon and others put in their place Beverley, Butby and Dudhill as their attorneys jointly or singularly against Middleton and others in a plea of taking and unjustly detaining many sums of money.
