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Thomas Coue (Cou), prebendary of Woodford in the collegiate church of Westbury. Coue...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/84/4193

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This record is about the Thomas Coue (Cou), prebendary of Woodford in the collegiate church of Westbury. Coue... dating from [1389] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/84/4193
Date
[1389]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Coue (Cou), prebendary of Woodford in the collegiate church of Westbury.
Name(s)
Coue (Cou), Thomas
Addressees
Chancellor.
Occupation
prebendary of Woodford in the collegiate church of Westbury
Nature of request
Coue requests remedy as Trevysa, and Poleyn who maintained him came to the church of Westbury and ejected him from his stall and placed Barrak in it, took his servants and imprisoned them, and held the prebend by force, and nothing could be done on this because of Poleyn's power whereby the petitioner is greatly damaged.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Woodford, Gloucestershire
Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire
Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]
Berkeley Castle, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
John Trevysa
John Poleyn
Robert Barrak, vicar of Trevysa
William Colerne, servant of the petitioner
John Rothewell (Rothwell), servant of the petitioner.
Note
The petition dates to 1389 as the events referred to in the petition occurred on 12 February, 12 Ric. II, and thereafter. This date is confirmed by the close roll entry (CCR 1389-92, p.26).
Related material

For a petition formerly attached to this one, see SC 8/84/4192

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1987
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.26 (order to free Poleyn as he had found mainpernors for his peaceable behaviour to Coue and Robert Wattes, dean of the college)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148735/

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