John Tubbe, parson of Southoe. Tubbe John King and lords of parliament. parson of...

Petitioners

John Tubbe, parson of Southoe.

Name(s)

Tubbe, John

Addressees

King and lords of parliament.

Occupation

parson of Southoe

Nature of request

John Tubbe, parson of Southoe, states that because he refused certain agreements which were discussed between him and the Prior of Huntingdon concerning the appropriation of the church of Southoe, as they could not take place without simony and without depriving him of his church, the Prior and his people came to the parsonage and broke the doors down, but, because John's servants raised the hue and cry, people from the vill came and no damage was done. Nevertheless, the Prior has made a false accusation to the Chancellor that John and some tenants of the Earl of Stafford broke into his buildings at the parsonage, attacked and wounded him and his men, killed one of his servants and stole his corn. He has had an oyer et terminer on this, and by misinformation John and the others have been fined. They ask that the matter might be re-examined by good people of the country who are in the present parliament, and that if the Prior's claim should be found to be false, that the oyer et terminer might be annulled and a suitable remedy given them. And that in future no oyer et terminer should be granted without verifying the truth of the claim, as the statute demands.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Southoe, [Huntingdonshire]

Huntingdon, [Huntingdonshire].

People mentioned

The Prior of Huntingdon

[Hugh de Stafford], Earl of Stafford

Robert Fereres, tenant of the Earl of Stafford

Walter Walssch, tenant of the Earl of Stafford

Simon de Burgh, tenant of the Earl of Stafford

Richard Hemyngford (Hemingford), tenant of the Earl of Stafford

Geoffrey, servant of the Prior of Huntingdon.

For transcript, see no.76 of PRO 31/7/108