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Alice Devery, and the people of Canterbury Devery Alice King Alice Devery, a poor...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/43/2103

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Reference
SC 8/43/2103
Date
[c. 1324]
Description
Petitioners
Alice Devery, and the people of Canterbury
Name(s)
Devery, Alice
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Alice Devery, a poor woman of Canterbury, requests that the king grant an oyer and terminer to Henry de Beauvys, John Malemeyns and John de Ifeld to inquire into and determine various wrongs done to her and other people in Canterbury, as explained in the petition which follows.There follows a Latin petition, from the people of Canterbury, setting out these wrongs in greater detail. [Damaged and missing some text]
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Canterbury, [Kent]
Hoo, [Kent]
Ifield, [Kent]
People mentioned
Henry de Beauvys
John Malemeyns of Hoo
John de Ifeld
Note
A note on the guard assigns this petition to '? c. 1324' on the ground that all three commissioners appear at about this date, but not together. However the reference it gives, CPR 1321-4 p.449 (dated at Westminster, 25 March 1324) mentions only two of them. The third, John Malemeyns of Hoo, is probably not the John Malemayns of Walwersshare, adherent of the rebels and prisoner in Rochester castle who is mentioned in CPR 1321-4 pp.115 and 184 (May and July 1322), and p.349 (November 1323) and whose pardon (Nottingham, 20 November 1323) is found in CPR 1321-4 p.350 - but if he is, that would further limit the date.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2512
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.449 (commission of oyer and terminer on an unrelated matter to Henry de Beauvys and John Ifeld)
  • Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.752 (reference to petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062309/

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