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Prior and canons of Leighs. King and lords of parliament. The Prior and canons of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4236

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Reference
SC 8/85/4236
Date
[? 1472]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and canons of Leighs.
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
The Prior and canons of Leighs state that they and their predecessors were peacefully seised, by right of their church, of the manor of Dernford in Sweffling, Suffolk, until Michaelmas in the King's tenth year, when certain servants of Robert Wynkefeld, knight, Justice of the Peace in Suffolk, entered the manor with force and arms, claiming by colour of a forged enfeoffment made by Adam Hacon to Robert Wynkefeld that it had been given to Adam and his heirs in perpetuity, although Adam had title in the manor only for a term of years; and Robert continues to uphold this forged document, and to occupy the manor. And he had a canon who entered the manor arrested, and certain goods of the Prior's seized, which he would not release without payment, and still has some of them. And although these matters have been sent to arbitration, Robert had the Prior, the canon who had entered the manor, and the farmer of the manor indicted in his sessions of enetering Adam's house and robbing him. As the common law can give him no remedy, because of Robert's power in the area, he requests a remedy from the King.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Leighs, Essex
Dernford manor, Suffolk
Sweffling, Suffolk.
People mentioned
John Burngile
John Glemham
John Walle
Thomas Halle
John Styward
Richard Rysyngton
Adam Hacon
John Knyghtys
John Ederyche
William Palmer
Robert Wynkefeld (Wingfield), knight, Justice of the Peace in Suffolk
Robert Colne, canon of Leighs
Raubyn (Robin) Betell
John Man
John Pottesford
John Assle
Robert Fissher
John Shefeld
Robert Crane
John Jakys
Robert Deye, the Prior of Leighs' farmer of Dernford.
Note
Tentatively dated to the parliament of 1472, with reference to the mention of Michaelmas, 10 Edward IV (1470) (the parliament of November 1470 seems a bit early) and to Robert Wingfield, justice of the peace in Suffolk.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5306
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148778/

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