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James de Tilneye (Tilney), servant of Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. de Tilneye...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/633

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Reference
SC 8/13/633
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
James de Tilneye (Tilney), servant of Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk.
Name(s)
de Tilneye (Tilney), James
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
servant of Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk
Nature of request
Tilneye shows that he was servant of the earl of Suffolk in Boston and he was taken and imprisoned in the Tower of London for an affray in Boston, though he was not found culpable for anything only by malicious accusation. He was released by a mainprise under which he still lives. He requests that at the request of the earl he be discharged from prison and the mainprise.
Nature of endorsement
Coram Rege.
Places mentioned
Seint Botolph, (Boston), [Lincolnshire]
London.
People mentioned
Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk
Lord Wylughby (Willoughby)
Lord Tateshale (Tatteshale).
Note
This is dated to 1348 by the details given in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.175; see also PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 52. If this was the insurrection that a commission of oyer and terminer was issued for in July 1347, then the identification of this petition with the Rot. Parl. date seems acceptable.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7999
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VII, 1345-1348, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.381 (commission of oyer and terminer for an insurrection in Boston)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.188a (no.50) (full edition of a later copy of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 52 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060772/

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