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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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/148/7355
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1389]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.62 of PRO 31/7/154
For a petition formerly attached to this one, see SC 8/84/4192
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- 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)
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Record URL
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