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John Pyel. Pyel John [None] Pyel requests remedy as William de Cossington has entered...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/84/4200

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Reference
SC 8/84/4200
Date
[c. 1376]
Description
Petitioners
John Pyel.
Name(s)
Pyel, John
Addressees
[None]
Nature of request
Pyel requests remedy as William de Cossington has entered his manors of Acrise and Mount with force and taken his goods and chattels against the law. Cossington's father had enfeoffed Pyel and Lacy with the manors, and Cossington had made a release of them, the enfeoffment and release being enrolled, and Pyel during illness had enfeoffed Fraunceys and others with them.1)
Nature of endorsement
He should sue at the common law.2) . . .
Places mentioned
Acrise, Kent
Mount, Kent.
People mentioned
Stephen de Cosyngton (Cossington)
Piers de Lacy
William de Cosyngton, son and heir of Stephen Cosyngton (Cossington)
Adam Fraunceys
William Halden
John Swetbon.
Note
The petition probably dates to c. 1376 as the petition refers to events 12 years before in 1364. The petition would probably have to postdate 1374 on the basis of a quitclaim made by John de Cossington, the brother of Stephen who had granted the manor to the petitioner in 1364 (CCR 1364-8, p.65; CCR 1374-7, p.101). It is likely that Stephen's son would have acted around this time as Pyel perhaps sought to buy out other interests in the manor. Pyel died in 1382, so the petition is likely to be some time before this. Unfortunately Pyel's cartulary makes no mention of this land, and ends probably before the ousting of Pyel from the manor (O'Connor, S.J., A Calendar of the Cartularies of John Pyel and Adam Fraunceys, Camden Fifth Series, Vol.2, (1993)).
Related material

For a near-duplicate petition with a more specific request, see SC 8/144/7161

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1949
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XII, 1364-1368, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.65 (charter of Stephen de Cosyngton granting the manor to Lacy and Pyel)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIV, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.101 (quitclaim by John, Stephen de Cosyngton's brother of his rights in the manor)
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