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Robert Martyn (Martin) of Yeovilton. Martyn (Martin) Robert King and council. Martyn...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2979A
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/60/2979A
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1338]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Martyn (Martin) of Yeovilton.
- Name(s)
- Martyn (Martin), Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Martyn request that another pardon be made until the truth of the errors and grievances are found, and that Galeberd be attached by his body until he makes Croucheston come. Martyn shows that Galeberd by a commission of the king took Croucheston who ravished Margaret, Martyn's wife, whereof Croucheston was indicted of felony and outlawed by many writs of the king and Galeberd was ordered to move him to Winchester to stand to the law, but allowed him to go. And afterwards by conspiracy between Galeberd, the sub-sheriff and receiver in the same county have procured men to indict the petitioner and his men and they are put in exigent in the trailbaston of the county. Croucheston was eventually taken but pleaded that he had no lands or chattels though he has them by the sufferance of the ministers. The petitioner and his men dare not sue for the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because the malice is so well known and attested before the council by the great men, let it be ordered to the justices of trailbaston to make to come the record and process of the indictment that Martyn has arrained John de Croucheston before the king at the third week of Easter, and by surety that Martyn has found in Chancery to answer to king at the day, upon the indictment let it be ordered to the sheriff to sursease the process of exigency in the which he is put by the cause, and let it also be ordered to Robert Selyman to make the indictment come which are before him concerning Martyn before the king at the same day, and let a writ be ordered to attach Galeberd that he be before the king at the day to answer to the king that he had released John de Croucheston . . . a writ to delay Croucheston.
- Places mentioned
- Yeovilton, [Somerset]
- Worcester, [Worcestershire]
- Wiltshire
- Salisbury, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Galeberd
- John de Croucheston
- Margaret [Martyn (Martin)], wife of the petitioner
- William Randulf, Under-sheriff of Wiltshire
- Nicholas Martyn (Martin), Receiver of the king's writs
- Robert Selyman.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition seems to date to c. 1338 for Croucheston was pardoned on 8 May 1338 and complained of Martyn's actions against him for which commissions of oyer and terminer were issued on 13 July 1339 (CPR 1338-40, pp.58, 352-3).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/60/2974
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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 5804
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1338-1340, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.58 (pardon to Croucheston of his outlawry in Hampshire he having surrendered to Winchester gaol) & pp.352-3 (three commissions of oyer and terminer to examine the complaints of Croucheston against Martyn for his arrest and torture)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063199/
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