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Good people of the hundred of Illegible. King and council. [The right-hand side of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/99/4949

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Reference
SC 8/99/4949
Date
[? c. 1327]
Description
Petitioners
Good people of the hundred of Illegible.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[The right-hand side of this petition is missing.]The good people of the hundred of [illegible] show . . . to the said hundred annually, that it to say, on the Tuesday after Michaelmas and the . . . the free tenants of the said hundred and there were summoned the hundreds . . . his bailiffs, by extortion and by lordship they put them out of their certain days until . . . in certain, so that the good people were at the same time troubled from one day to the next by . . . hundred, and when they were weary of their coming in this way to the hundred, they held themselves to . . . saw that no-one was coming, they came with the rolls of the suitors and they made them . . . make the amercement of the suitors, to the great harm of the whole country, for which they request a remedy . . . our lord the King by he forfeiture of the said Hugh, none of them can have a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] . . . the parties are to be warned, according to their . . . [On dorse] Richard Damory, John de Stonore and Robert de Hardern, or two of them, so that John is one, are to be appointed to inquire into the things contained in this petition; and justice is further to be done.
People mentioned
Hugh [le Despenser]
Richard Damory
John de Stonore
Robert de Hardern.
Note
Dated on the guard to '? c. 1327', with reference to the mention of Richard Damory and John de Stonore, and to possible misdeeds by Hugh le Despenser. There is also a reference to CPR 1324-7 p.348, a commission of oyer et terminer to Richard Damory, Hugh de Meignill, Hugh de Dutton and Robert de Knyghtleye, concerning conspiracies, crimes and oppressions by the King's ministers in the hundreds and commotes of Overton, dated 9 July 1327.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1696
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149516/

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