Sir Roger de Pyvelesdon (otherwise 'Puleston' etc.) is cited as Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire c.1240s.[1]
He died in 1272 and his son and namesake Sir Roger de Puleston erected a market cross in his father's memory. This is confirmed in a deed dated 1285, signed by Roger (the son), which included these words: the cross set up for the soul of Roger de Pyvelesdon who died in 1272.[2][3][4]
Footnotes edit
- ^ Antiquities of Shropshire, The Rev. R. W. Eyton (Volume VIII, 1859) page 95: ...he is twice called Sheriff in matters which probably occurred between the years 1241 and 1248. The first is as witness of a Haughmond Charter, the next as presiding over an Inquest concerning the Forest immunities of Lilleshall Abbey, in which instance he is styled Roger de Pynelesdon then sheriff of Salop and Stafford
- ^ Mrs Sunter Harrison of Wrexham - 'The Early Pulestons', Book Two p.2, (pub. 1975, printed by Herald Printers, Whitchurch, Shropshire)
- ^ Puleston Jones Family History website.
- ^ "Puleston from MRS. Harrison".