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? No Petitioner named King and council It is stated that Sergeux when he was sheriff...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/38/1869

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Reference
SC 8/38/1869
Date
[1377-1378]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
It is stated that Sergeux when he was sheriff abused his office by making fines, extortions and imprisonments to the loss of the king and to the great damage of the country. The petitioners request that it is ordained to the sheriff such penalties in all the points as the law demands.
Nature of endorsement
Let this bill be ordered to the justices assigned for the taking of the assize in the counties of Devon and Cornwall between William Carmenowe and John Sergeux and others, and let the truth of this be enquired of before them.
Places mentioned
Seint Jermain (St Germans), Cornwall
Launceston, Cornwall
Liskeard, Cornwall
Wyke (Week St Mary), Cornwall
People mentioned
John Sergeux, Sheriff of Cornwall
John Jory of St Germans
Henry Frende, Vicar of Liskeard
Henry Illescomb
William Illescomb
Laurence Dreu
Ralph Carmenowe, Justice
William Carmenowe
John Hobbe
Thomas Lemman
John Lucays
Joan [Hobbekyn], widow of John Hobbekyn
Elizabeth [Sergeux], wife of John Sergeux, and daughter and one of the heirs of William Chambernon
William Chambernon
John Bostowen
Richard Bostowen
William Frankelain (Franklin)
Richard Bolham, Parson of Week St Mary
Note
The petition dates to 1377-8. Sergeux was sheriff from 1 October 1375 to 26 October 1376. Sergeux probably also held the office in 1388-9, but the draft writ in which this petition was enclosed (dated 10 December 1377) confirms the earlier date.
Related material

For another petition making several complaints against Seregeux see SC 8/38/1868

For a another petition making numerous complaints against Sergeux SC 8/38/1867

For a copy of a writ relating to complaints made against Sergeux see SC 8/38/1866

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1565
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062072/

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