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John de Mounteney of Writtle. de Mounteney John King and Council John de Mounteney...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/128/6380

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Reference
SC 8/128/6380
Date
[c. 1310]
Description
Petitioners
John de Mounteney of Writtle.
Name(s)
de Mounteney, John
Addressees
King and Council
Nature of request
John de Mounteney makes two requests.1) Mounteney requests remedy against Sparke, stating that he enfeoffed Sparke with lands and tenements in Writtle, with the intention that after 40 days Sparke would enfeoff the lands back to him and his wife. However, Sparke, colluding with FitzWilliam, enfeoffed FitzWilliam instead, thus disinheriting Mounteney.2) He states that FitzWilliam, abusing his office, sent Pingkenore to arrest him, and kept him prisoner in Colchester castle for 27 weeks. During this time FitzWilliam, Sparke and Hardy broke into his house, attacked his wife and children, and stole goods worth £40 and various charters, including a bond between him and Sparke for £300.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] Regarding the first he is to have a writ of agreement.Regarding the second, he is to have a writ of trespass.
Places mentioned
Writtle, [Essex]
Colchester, [Essex]
Chelmsford hundred, [Essex].
People mentioned
William Sparke of Writtle
Katherine [de Mounteney], wife of the petitioner
Robert son of William (FitzWilliam) of Writtle, former clerk of the sheriff of Essex
sheriff of Essex
Nicholas Pingkenore
William Hardy, former sub-bailiff of Chelmsford hundred.
Note
Commissions of oyer et terminer relating to the events detailed in the second of these petitions were issued on 4 August 1309 and 10 March 1310, and presumably the petition dates to this same period.
Related material

For another petition from Mounteney on this matter see SC 8/126/6291

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5939
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.239 (commission of oyer et terminer on complaint by Mounteney that Sparke broke into his house at Roxwell and stole documents and goods) & p.255 (similar commission)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208558/

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