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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Stephen of Cornwall. Stephen John Chancellor and council. Stephen requests that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/215/10716
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This record is about the John Stephen of Cornwall. Stephen John Chancellor and council. Stephen requests that... dating from [? 1388] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/215/10716
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1388]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Stephen of Cornwall.
- Name(s)
- Stephen, John
- Addressees
- Chancellor and council.
- Nature of request
- Stephen requests that a writ of scire facias be directed to Langedon to appear before the council with his pledges to answer because, despite making surety of peace to the petitioner and others at the last session held at Launceston before Rikhill, on the Thursday after the feast of St Peter in the cathedral he came into Trevozah and assaulted and beat the petitioner and took 4 oxen and 26 sheep out of his park, and on the Friday before the Invention of the Holy Cross he again assaulted the petitioner and struck him on the head with a great stone nearly killing him, and he continually tries to kill him, so that the petitioner dares not approach his own lands because Langedon, his three brothers and his father are such great disturbers of the peace.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Cornwall
- Launceston, [Cornwall]
- Trevosowe (Trevozah), [Cornwall].
- People mentioned
- William Langedon
- William Rikhill, justice
- John Langedon
- Richard Pyncerne.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? 1388, with reference to William Rikhill being a justice in Cornwall.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334272/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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