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Not specified. Council. Report to the council that Gramary and others are common...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/209/10430

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Reference
SC 8/209/10430
Date
[c. 1340]
Description
Petitioners
Not specified.
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
Report to the council that Gramary and others are common criminals who have ridden by day and by night with fifty others and more, destroying property and crops. They are now taken and committed to prison; in view of the outrage in the area at the crimes, the petitioners request that the criminals be not allowed to leave prison, and that the council consider the articles of the justices assigned as keepers of the peace.
Nature of endorsement
Instructions for a writ to the sheriff of Yorkshire.
Places mentioned
West Riding of Yorkshire.
People mentioned
Henry [Gramary], son of William Gramary
William Gramary
William de Berngby
Thomas de Thyrne
William de Hesell
Sheriff of Yorkshire.
Note
Datable shortly before the commission recorded in CPR 1338-40, p. 493.
Related material

For a related petition, see SC 8/267/13316

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1338-1340, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.493 (subsequent commission to inquire into these prisoners)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333987/

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