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Nicholas Pontyngdon. Pontyngdon Nicholas King and lords of parliament. Nicholas Pontyngdon...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1046

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Reference
SC 8/21/1046
Date
[? 1393]
Description
Petitioners
Nicholas Pontyngdon.
Name(s)
Pontyngdon, Nicholas
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
Nicholas Pontyngdon states that his father, Thomas de Pontyngdon of the county of Devon, was forcibly ejected from his manor of Bickleigh by Philip de Courtornay, who still holds it, claiming untruthfully that Thomas was a bastard; and as he is so powerful in the country, Nicholas can have no remedy at common law. He requests that the matter might be examined in the present parliament, or before the king's council, by the most sufficient knights and squires of the county, and that a remedy then be ordained.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Bikelegh (Bickleigh), [Devon].
People mentioned
Thomas de Pontyngdon, father of petitioner
Philip de Courtornay (Courtenay).
Note
This is not, word for word, the same petition as that edited in Rot. Parl vol. III p.302a, which is found on the roll of the parliament held at Winchester, in January 1393; but it seems to be from the same stage of the proceedings, and makes the same request - with the addition that the matter is to be examined either in the present parliament, or before the king's council, which is not found in the Rot. Parl. version - so it seems probable that this is an alternative version of the same petition, rather than an earlier or later petition on the same matter.
Related material

For a related petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/135/6718

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6569
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.302a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, text modified and with responsesemicolonhere or transcription of related petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061209/

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