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John Cornewaill (Cornwall), knight. Cornewaill (Cornwall) John Council. knight Cornewaill...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/213/10650

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This record is about the John Cornewaill (Cornwall), knight. Cornewaill (Cornwall) John Council. knight Cornewaill... dating from [c. 1399] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/213/10650
Date
[c. 1399]
Description
Petitioners
John Cornewaill (Cornwall), knight.
Name(s)
Cornewaill (Cornwall), John
Addressees
Council.
Occupation
knight
Nature of request
Cornewaill requests that whereas by the King's letters patent he was granted the lands and marriages of Alice and Joan Cergeaux, and afterwards Dynham committed distresses both in the manors where the petitioner's wife was and in the lands belonging to Alice and Joan, where they were kept without food and a great number of cattle killed, and Dynham wants the petitioner to pay him £50, that a writ be directed to Dynham to appear before the council in the third week of Easter to answer to the King and the petitioner, on pain of £200.
Nature of endorsement
John Dynham should have a day in the quinzaine of Easter.
People mentioned
Richard Cergeaux, knight
Alice [Cergeaux], daughter and heir of Richard Cergeaux
Joan [Cergeaux], daughter and heir of Richard Cergeaux
John Dynham, knight.
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1399, with reference to CFR 1391-9, p. 291, a 1399 commitment to Cornewaill of keeping of all lands, rents and services late of Cergeaux to hold until the lawful ages of Alice and Joan.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/217/10813

For another petition by the same petitioner and the countess of Huntingdon, see SC 8/22/1075

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. XI, Ric II, 1391-1399, (Public Record Office, 1929), p.291 (commitment to Cornewaill of keeping of all lands, rents and services late of Cergeaux to hold until the lawful ages of Alice and Joan)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334207/

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