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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger de Couelyngh (Cowling). de Couelyngh (Cowling) Roger King and council 1) Couelyngh...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/41/2021
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This record is about the Roger de Couelyngh (Cowling). de Couelyngh (Cowling) Roger King and council 1) Couelyngh... dating from [c. 1289] 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 8/41/2021
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1289]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger de Couelyngh (Cowling).
- Name(s)
- de Couelyngh (Cowling), Roger
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- 1) Couelyngh complains of Rochester that when he was justice in Eyre in Sussex in the 16th year of the reign, Couelyngh brought a writ of trespass against the abbot of Bayham and gave it to Rochester. Rochester favoured the abbot and his writ was returned after the end of the eyre so that Couelyngh cannot have justice and is without a day to his damage. He requests a remedy.2) Couelyngh further complains of the abbot that he had made an agreement with to take the lands of several tenants, and had satisfied the tenants of the same. He entered the lands and sowed and improved them with marl. The abbot and many others came and ejected him and carried away his corn to his damage of £40. He purchased a writ in the king's court to the sheriff of Sussex to deliver his chattels, but the sheriff did not act claiming that they had been taken into another county. He petitioned the king but nothing happened so that he requests remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Of ministers after the crossing.
- Places mentioned
- Begehamme (Bayham), [Sussex]
- Sussex
- Brightling, [Sussex].
- People mentioned
- Salaman (Solomon) de Roucestre (Rochester), justice in Eyre of Sussex
- Abbot of Bayham
- Richard Brun (Brown)
- Robert de Herleshame
- Walter de Coueshirst
- Laurence, Canon of the abbey of Bayham
- John du Pounte Richar, Canon of the abbey of Bayham
- Richard de Peves' (Pevensey), Sheriff of Sussex.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petitions are likely to date to c. 1289. The petitions themselves refer to events in the 16th and 18th years of Edward I. In addition the petition refers to Richard de Pevensey as sheriff of Sussex, and suggesting that this was after his tenure which came to an end in November 1287 (List of Sheriffs, p.135). The guard suggests that it may date to after the return of the king in 1289, and this seems very likely for Edward I purged his administration and many petitions were received in response to this reform (Prestwich, Edward I, pp.339-42).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/331/15625
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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 1557
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062226/
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