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Robert Wattes, Dean of the collegiate church of Westbury on Trym. Wattes Robert King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/148/7355

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SC 8/148/7355
Date
[c. 1389]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Wattes, Dean of the collegiate church of Westbury on Trym.
Name(s)
Wattes, Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Dean of the collegiate church of Westbury on Trym
Nature of request
Robert, Dean of the collegiate church of Westbury on Trym, states that on the morrow of Trinity, in the King's eleventh year, John Poleyne came by night to Westbury on Trym with a large number of armed men, broke into his house, dragged him from his bed, assaulted him, and imprisoned and threatened him, so that for fear of death he promised to make fine with him and to give him all his goods. Then on 12 February, in the King's twelfth year, John Poleyne, John Trevysa, John Breton, Richard Curteys and John Smyth of Westbury on Trym again broke into his house to kill him, assaulted his servants, carried off his goods and chattels and committed other wrongs against him. He requests a remedy, as he can have no recovery at common law, because John Poleyne is such a great maintainer of quarrels, and has so much support from great men in the country.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire
Berkeley, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
John Poleyne, esquire of Thomas Berkle
Thomas Berkle (Berkeley) of Berkeley, knight
John Trevysa
John Breton
Richard Curteys
John Smyth.
Note
The attacks took place on the morrow of Trinity, 11 Richard II (1388) and on 12 February, 12 Richard II (1389) CCR 1389-92 pp.25-26 is dated 19 October 1389, so the petition would seem to date from that year. CCR 1389-92 p.150 is dated 21 February 1390, and may not be related.
Related material

For transcript, see p.62 of PRO 31/7/154

For a petition formerly attached to this one, see SC 8/84/4192

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), pp.25-6 (order to the constable of the Tower of London to set John Poleyne free, on mainprise that he will do no hurt to the petitioner and Thomas Coue, clerk) & p.150 (record of mainprise that the petitioner and others shall do no hurt to Geoffrey de Melton, clerk, and vice versa)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209539/

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