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John Glyn, gentleman Glyn John King Glyn requests letters to Bodrugan commanding...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2471

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This record is about the John Glyn, gentleman Glyn John King Glyn requests letters to Bodrugan commanding... dating from [1483] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/50/2471
Date
[1483]
Description
Petitioners
John Glyn, gentleman
Name(s)
Glyn, John
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Glyn requests letters to Bodrugan commanding him to deliver Glyn from prison and go at large, and he undertakes to be ready at all times to answer the king on anything laid against him by Goaugh or anyone else. He was imprisoned following a commission to Bodrugan by the false allegation of Goaugh that he had taken a ship laden with wine belonging to Goaugh.
Nature of endorsement
A bill to the councillors of England for a writ of corpus cum causa.
Places mentioned
Cornwall
Landregare [unidentified], [Brittany, France].
People mentioned
Henry Bodrugon (Bodrugan), knight
William le Goaugh of Brittany
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3914
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, Edw V and Ric III, 1476-1485, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.355 (commission to Bodrugan and others to enquire into the complaint of William le Goauth)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062685/

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