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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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This record is about the Prior and canons of Leighs. King and lords of parliament. The Prior and canons of... dating from [? 1472] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/85/4236
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1472]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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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 5306
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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)
- English
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148778/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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