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Roger Lyneye of Newport. Lyneye Roger Lords and commons of parliament. Roger Lyneye,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1146
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/23/1146
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1416
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger Lyneye of Newport.
- Name(s)
- Lyneye, Roger
- Addressees
- Lords and commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Roger Lyneye, who was appointed one of the collectors of the fifteenth in Shropshire in the parliament of the first year of the king's reign, states that the following March, while performing his office, he was attacked at Hinstock by Roger Corbet and others, and left for dead. He sued to the king at the parliament at Leicester about this, but various servants of Roger's brother Robert have since come to his village of Newport, and have killed and injured some of his tenants, with the result that his village is being abandoned. He asks the lords and commons to ask the king to grant the Chancellor full power, by authority of parliament, to hear and determine the matter, excluding the felonies, by examination of the parties or otherwise as he sees fit.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] A Roy et seignurs (To the king and lords).[On dorse] This petition is to be sent to the King's Bench, and the justices of the same bench, by authority of this parliament held at Westminster on Monday 16 March in the third year of the reign of King Henry, the fifth since the conquest, are to hear and determine the whole matter contained in the petition, according to their advice and discretion.
- Places mentioned
- Newport, [Shropshire]
- le countee de Salopp (Shropshire)
- Hynestoke (Hinstock), [Shropshire]
- Westminster
- Leicester, [Leicestershire].
- People mentioned
- Roger Corbet, esquire
- Robert Corbet, brother of Roger Corbet
- Thomas Munde, servant of Robert Corbet
- Richard Pastour, chaplain, tenant of the petitioner
- Richard Upton, servant of Robert Corbet
- Richard Brasyer, tenant of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- As the endorsement makes clear, this petition was presented to the parliament of March 3 Henry V (1416).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The petition to the Leicester parliament mentioned by this petition is SC 8/23/1130
For another related petition see C 1/69/168
A similar petition from another of the collectors is SC 8/23/1147
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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 5171
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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. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.87b-88a (no.3) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061314/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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