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Godfrey Rouland (Rowland), esquire, of Derbyshire. Rouland (Rowland) Godfrey Lords...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1091
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This record is about the Godfrey Rouland (Rowland), esquire, of Derbyshire. Rouland (Rowland) Godfrey Lords... dating from [? 1402-? 1403] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/22/1091
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1402-? 1403]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Godfrey Rouland (Rowland), esquire, of Derbyshire.
- Name(s)
- Rouland (Rowland), Godfrey
- Addressees
- Lords of king's council.
- Nature of request
- Godfrey Rouland states that on the Monday before the translation of St John of Beverley, in the twenty-third year of Richard II, Thomas Wendesley, John Deen, and others came armed to his house at Great Longstone, broke into it, carried off his goods and chattels, imprisoned him in the castle of High Peak without food or water for six days, and then cut off his right hand. He requests a swift and suitable remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to sue at common law, and justice will be done to him.
- Places mentioned
- Hope, [Derbyshire]
- Mikel Longesdon (Great Longstone), [Derbyshire]
- High Peak, [Derbyshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Wendesley, knight
- John Deen, vicar of the church of Hope
- John Shawe (Shaw)
- Richard Hunt
- Reginald Wombewell (Wombwell)
- John de Sutton
- Thomas Swynscowe (Swinscoe)
- John Swynscowe (Swinscoe), son of Thomas Swynscowe.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.517a-2b (no. 14) to 4 Henry IV (30 September 1402 - 29 September 1403). There are no indications that the petition was necessarily presented in parliament.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 7147
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.518a-b (no.18) (full edition of original petition, or of later copy)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061257/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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