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Thomas Despayne. Despayne Thomas Council. Despayne requests recovery of the manor...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/213/10646

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This record is about the Thomas Despayne. Despayne Thomas Council. Despayne requests recovery of the manor... dating from [c. 1390] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/213/10646
Date
[c. 1390]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Despayne.
Name(s)
Despayne, Thomas
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
Despayne requests recovery of the manor of Braham, which he purchased from Hartlington for 200 marks and occupied peacefully for four years until Hartlington, Chamber, Pensax and others disseised him and took his goods worth £200. Despayne brought an assize of novel disseisin, pending which Pensax and 25 others attacked him at night at his house so that he feared for his life, and they made a tomb for him in Brame wood intending to bury him alive.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Brame (Braham), [West Riding of] Yorkshire.
People mentioned
William de Hertlyngton (Hartlington)
William de Chambre (Chamber)
Percival de Pencaux (Pensax).
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1390, with reference to SC 8/213/10645, which also concerns Pensax and is dated to c. 1393.
Related material

For another petition complaining about Pensax, see SC 8/213/10645

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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/C9334203/

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