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Simon de Perpount, knight. de Perpount Simon King and council. Simon de Perpount...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/65/3233

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Reference
SC 8/65/3233
Date
[? 1330]
Description
Petitioners
Simon de Perpount, knight.
Name(s)
de Perpount, Simon
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Simon de Perpount complains about John de Loudham, Sheriff of Norfolk, who by colour of his office and without warrant had Simon seized in his manor of Wrentham by William Bretun and others, and imprisoned for four days, until he had made fine with both John and William. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
He is to sue before those who are to be appointed to hear and determine the trespasses and oppressions etc. committed by sheriffs and other ministers etc.
Places mentioned
Norfolk
Werentham (Wrentham), Suffolk.
People mentioned
John de Loudham, knight, Sheriff of Norfolk
William Bretun.
Note
John de Loudham was Sheriff of Norfolk from February 1328 to December 1330. Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.40a-b (no. 45) includes this petition amongst a group assigned to 4 Edward III (25 January 1330-24 January 1331).CPR 1330-4 p.188 is dated 15 October 1331.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6440
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.188 (pardon to John de Loudham of a fine made before the justices of oyer et terminer and other things)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.40a-b (no.45) (full edition of a later copy of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 45 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106997/

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