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Poor men of Cadney and Howsham. Council. Complaint of violent action against the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/131/6543

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SC 8/131/6543
Date
[c. 1381]
Description
Petitioners
Poor men of Cadney and Howsham.
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
Complaint of violent action against the petitioners by the prior of Newstead.
Nature of endorsement
Notes identifying the complainants and their attorney, Spryngthorp.
Places mentioned
Cadney, [Lincolnshire]
Howsham, [Lincolnshire]
Newstead Priory, [Lincolnshire]
Isle of Axholme, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Henry II, King of England
Wiliam Auty
Adam Wright
John Rook
John de Geffreyson
Alan Rook
John Robynson
Alan Smyth
John Fissher
John de Baumburgh
John de Spryngthorp.
Note
Datable by references in the petition to disturbances in the fourth year of the king and by related commissions of oyer and terminer in CPR 1381-5, pp. 262, 494.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6250
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208726/

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