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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.

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/331/15625