Roger Fulthorpe

Family: England · Role: knight and associate justice · First appears: Richard II 37

Life events

c. 1388 · Richard II required six legal officers to answer questions concerning his prerogative and the parliamentary statutes.(Richard II 37 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: Richard II Robert Tresilian Robert Belknap John Holt William Borough John Lockton
- “being pesonalie required in presence of the lords and other witnesses vnder written by our said souereigne lord the king, in that faith and allegiance in which to him they were bounden, that they should trulie answer to certeine questions vnderwritten, and vpon the same by their discretions, to saie the law.”
c. 1388 · The legal officers declared the new statute, ordinance, and commission harmful to the king’s prerogative.(Richard II 37 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: Robert Tresilian Robert Belknap John Holt William Borough John Lockton
- “Wherevnto all of one mind answered, that they were hurtfull, and speciallie bicause they be against the kings will.”
c. 1388 · The legal officers sealed their formal answers concerning the parliamentary judgment against Michaell de la Poole.(Richard II 37 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: Robert Tresilian Robert Belknap John Holt William Borough John Lockton
- “In witnesse of the premisses, the iustices & sergeant aforesaid to these presents haue set their seals”

sworn: Richard II “Iohn Holt, Roger Fulthorpe, & William Borough, knights and associats of the said Robert Belknap, and Iohn Lockton one of the kings sergeants at the law, being pesonalie required ... by our said souereigne lord the king, in that faith and allegiance in which to him they were bounden”
with Robert Belknap (legal associates) “Iohn Holt, Roger Fulthorpe, & William Borough, knights and associats of the said Robert Belknap”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.