John Gernon; John Dawe. Gernon; Dawe John; John King and the lords in the present...

Petitioners

John Gernon; John Dawe.

Name(s)

Gernon; Dawe, John; John

Addressees

King and the lords in the present parliament.

Nature of request

The petitioners requests a remedy and that they be discharged finally of the false suits made against them by Thomas Hardyng, who alleged that they had destroyed his house in the late troubles. Harding by his malice forced them to make Statute merchants concerning the same, and he has received more than his house was worth, and has refused to seal defeasances to them, and has prosecuted them though inquisitions returned into Chancery show that John Hardyng was responsible for the damage.

Nature of endorsement

By reason that it is found by several inquests taken by sufficient men by force of a commission made to them and returned into Chancery, that Hardyng had received sums for damages made in the late unrest well in excess of what the damages amounted to, and that for other reasons declared in parliament the king, with the assent of the lords has granted a supersedeas of all writs made or sued by Hardyng sued against the petitioners until the next parliament.

Places mentioned

Tendring hundred, Essex

Manningtree, Essex.

People mentioned

Thomas Hardyng (Harding)

John Hardyng (Harding)

Robert Thorp.

For a related petition on the same matter see SC 8/299/14919

For the jury list formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/113/5630A

For a related petition on the same matter by the same petitioner and others see SC 8/21/1031

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), pp.58-60, p.520 (writs of supersedeas stopping the suit of Hardyng against the petitioners and others)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), p.257 (writ of supersedeas)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.442 (inquisition into the houses of Hardyng destroyed in the insurrection, their value and those responsible)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.275 (no.8) (full edition of a similar petition with a near identical response)