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John de Wraweby, merchant. de Wraweby John Lords of parliament. merchant John de...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/148/7360

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SC 8/148/7360
Date
[c. 1385-c. 1407]
Description
Petitioners
John de Wraweby, merchant.
Name(s)
de Wraweby, John
Addressees
Lords of parliament.
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
John de Wraweby, merchant, states that he made an agreement with Thomas Stafford and Isabel his wife, to take various tenements at farm for seven years, but that they have expelled him before his term was up, threatened him and his servants, and taken faggots from the wood he took at farm; and Thomas and William Bagot, his father-in-law, have had John outlawed to bar him from his action. He can have no justice because of their great maintenance, and requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Barlay (Barlow), [West Riding of] Yorkshire
Coventry, [Warwickshire]
Church Lawford, Warwickshire.
People mentioned
Thomas Stafford
Isabel [Stafford], wife of Thomas Stafford
William Bagot, father of Isabel Stafford
Mayor and Bailiffs of Coventry.
Note
The latter date is determined by William Bagot's death in that year: see Roskell, House of Commons 1386-1421, vol. iv, pp. 446-7.
Related material

For transcript, see no.11 of PRO 31/7/113

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209544/

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