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John Gernoun (Gernon). Gernoun (Gernon) John King and council. Gernoun requests that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/113/5632

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Reference
SC 8/113/5632
Date
[c. 1375 - c. 1380]
Description
Petitioners
John Gernoun (Gernon).
Name(s)
Gernoun (Gernon), John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Gernoun requests that Wyke and the other malefactors be arrested for the wrongful suit they brought against him for his inheritance, and for the wrongful entrance by force and arms they made into his manors of Rippingale, Burton Coggles and Bitchfield, and the waste done there against the crown and the Statute of Gloucester. He further requests that he be restored to his possession in these manors or have a special assize to recover them.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Lincolnshire
Westminster
Essex
Lancashire
Derbyshire
Nottinghamshire
Rippingale, [Lincolnshire]
Burton Coggles, [Lincolnshire]
Bitchfield, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Robert Colyvyll (Colevill), cousin of the petitioner
Alice [Gernoun (Gernon)], mother of the petitioner and aunt to Robert Colvyll
Ralph Basset
John de Wyke, Justice and Keeper of the Peace
Alice [de Wyke], wife of John de Wyke
[John of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster
[Thomas of Woodstock], Earl of Buckingham.
Note
A file of documents relating to the suit brought by Wyke against Gernoun, now at C 260/92 no. 6, shows that the hearing had begun at Blackfriars in London before Sir William Fyncheden (Chief Justice Common Pleas, 1371-4), and was seemingly later re-started in Common Pleas in the spring of 1375, after the records had been recovered from Fyncheden's administrators. However, that file was evidently gathered together later, in reponse to a further writ issued on 13 July 1380, summoning all records relating to the suit into Chancery (unfortunately no reason for this is given). Since Gernoun's petition refers to the suit as having continued for a long time, and to the justices having been ready to deliver a verdict, it was probably presented at some point after the 1375 resumption, and may have been the reason for the documents being summoned into Chancery in 1380. Gernoun died in 1384.
Related material

For a file of documents relating to the dispute between Wyke and Gernon, see no.6 of C 260/92

For transcript, see no.73 of PRO 31/7/106

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3747
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150304/

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