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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert de Swynerton (Swinnerton) of Poynton. de Swynerton (Swinnerton) Robert Lords...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1148
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/23/1148
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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
- Robert de Swynerton (Swinnerton) of Poynton.
- Name(s)
- de Swynerton (Swinnerton), Robert
- Addressees
- Lords and commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Robert de Swynerton, 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 just before the following Lent, while performing his office, he was attacked at Shrewsbury by Thomas Munde and four others, and seriously wounded, because he had taken a distraint at Preston Brockhurst. They took the distraint back. And because he sued to the king at the parliament at Leicester about this, they are threatening to kill him. He asks the lords and commons to ask the king to ordain due remedy for this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] A Roy et as seignurs (To the king and to the 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
- Peynton (Poynton), [Shropshire]
- le countee de Salopp (Shropshire)
- Shrovesbury (Shrewsbury), [Shropshire]
- Wydyford (Wytheford), [Shropshire]
- Preston Brockhurst, [Shropshire]
- Leicester, [Leicestershire]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Robert Corbet
- Thomas Munde, servant of Robert Corbet
- William Crowe of Wytheford
- Henry of the Parsons, servant of Robert Corbet
- Reginald Harrys (Harris)
- John Dermyn, servant of Robert Corbet.
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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 8/23/1146
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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 7663
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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), p.87a (no.1) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061316/
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