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Lettice Kiriell, who was the wife of John de Kiriell, knight. Kiriell Lettice The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/55/2713

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This record is about the Lettice Kiriell, who was the wife of John de Kiriell, knight. Kiriell Lettice The... dating from [1381] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/55/2713
Date
[1381]
Description
Petitioners
Lettice Kiriell, who was the wife of John de Kiriell, knight.
Name(s)
Kiriell, Lettice
Addressees
The Nobles and Commons in Parliament.
Nature of request
The petitioner asks the lords of parliament to ask the king to deliver writs to all the sheriffs of England to arrest Cornwaille and imprison him, and to deny him passage overseas (or to Lettice?), and to grant no petition or pardon to Cornwaille in various suits that she has begun or is about to begin against him for his detestable wickedness towards her. As she resided in Westenhanger Castle in Kent on Sunday 7 February 1378, Cornwaille entered the castle in the habit of a friar and stripped her servants of their clothes and allowed into the castle forty armed men who held the petitioner in torment for four hours until she paid him, and he has returned and assaulted her time after time for the last four years. Now, on 28 October 1381, he came to the castle to reduce it with armed men and scaling ladders and pursued the petitioner into a river (or the castle moat?) where she remained in fear for four hours until she was as good as dead. And then believing that she was dead he took her horses and other goods and chattels worth £1000.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Castle of Ostrynghangre (Westenhanger Castle), [Kent]
People mentioned
John de Kyryell (Kiriell), knight, late husband of the petitioner
John de Cornwaille, knight
Note
From the internal evidence, and the resulting commission in CPR 1381-5, p. 133.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4702
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.133 (resulting commission of oyer and terminer)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062931/

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