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Commons of Penwith and Kerrier hundreds in Cornwall. King and Commons in Parliament....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/104/5161

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Reference
SC 8/104/5161
Date
[1416]
Description
Petitioners
Commons of Penwith and Kerrier hundreds in Cornwall.
Addressees
King and Commons in Parliament.
Nature of request
The petitioners request a commission of enquiry into certain extortions committed in their hundreds, or an order for twelve sufficient persons from the hundreds to come before the addressees and be examined of the truth of their case, and state that on his coronation King Henry (the king's father), pardoned the commons of the realm of half of the fifteenth granted to King Richard, which pardon was declared in all counties of the realm. Notwithstanding this, John Treweroes (one of the collectors of the half fifteenth in Cornwall), entered into sixty parishes in the hundreds with the agreement of his associates, intending to collect the said tax to the amount of £100, and took 2s from each parish as his fee by extortion. No collector levied any money in the hundreds, but Treweroes kept the 2s fee for his own use, to the anger of the petitioners and in contempt of the king.
Nature of endorsement
Let this petition be handed to the king's council, and let the same council have full power through the authority of parliament to make such remedy in the complaints written within etc.
Places mentioned
Cornwall
Penwith hundred, [Cornwall]
Kerrier hundred, [Cornwall].
People mentioned
Henry IV, King of England
Richard II, King of England
John Treweroes.
Note
Firmly dated to the parliament of 1416 by PROME, parliament of 1416, appendix no. 2.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2211
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.88a-b (edition of petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1416, appendix no. 2 (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149731/

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