John de Dene; Maud de Dene, wife of John de Dene. de Dene; de Dene John; Maud King...

Petitioners

John de Dene; Maud de Dene, wife of John de Dene.

Name(s)

de Dene; de Dene, John; Maud

Addressees

King and Council.

Nature of request

The petitioners seek a remedy in a matter of false imprisonment, and compensation. They complain about Grey and Cambridge, king's justices on commissions of oyer and terminer in Huntingdonshire, in an inquest held before the first twelve persons named above (all tenants of the bishop of Ely in the franchise of Somersham), in which Hugh Hayuelf, the bishop's man, wrongfully took 20s from the petitioners, and the said justices would do nothing about the matter. They took legal action against Dorney for contravention of the statute of Westminster concerning the bailiffs of franchises, in which it was decided that they should be taxed ten marks, and by the decision of Lemoigne the sheriff they were imprisoned in Huntingdon gaol for two days following, in contempt of the king of £300 and to the cost to the petitioners of £200.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Huntingdonshire

Somersham, [Huntingdonshire]

Huntingdon, [Huntingdonshire].

People mentioned

Henry de Colan

Geoffrey Forest

Nicholas [...]

Gilbert de Gurtesdene

Ralph Paris

Richard de Wilmundell

Henry le Fouler

[...] Sharp

John Cook

Walter Joun

John de Mateshale

John Stubard

Roger de Grey

John de Cambridge

Hugh Hayuelf

Richard de Dorney, Bailiff of the Bishop of Ely in Somersham

William Lemoigne, Sheriff of Huntingdonshire.

For previous complaints made by the petitioners concerning the same matters see SC 8/105/5224