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John Newenham, Captain of the Isle of Guernsey. Newenham John Council. Captain of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/217/10824

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Reference
SC 8/217/10824
Date
[? c. 1403]
Description
Petitioners
John Newenham, Captain of the Isle of Guernsey.
Name(s)
Newenham, John
Addressees
Council.
Occupation
Captain of the Isle of Guernsey
Nature of request
The petitioner states that certain people of Guernsey have built towers and fortresses without the king's permission, for reasons unknown, and have also withheld the custom of the sea belonging to the king. He therefore requests that the council either order the bailiff and jurats of the island to resist such matters and prevent further ones being done, or that they write separately to the trespassers (Cleremond and others) to appear and answer the charges.
Nature of endorsement
Let writs be issued under the great seal with the assent of the council to Cleremond, Bernard, Fever and Fever, ordering them to be before the council at the quindene of Michaelmas next, under pain of £100 each.
Places mentioned
Guernsey, [Channel Islands].
People mentioned
Gerveys Cleremond
John Bernard
John Fever the elder
Gylot Fever.
Note
Dated on the guard to? c. 1403, presumably with regard to the other petitions from that period in this file. Other notes on the guard refer to the activities of Gervys Cleremond in the period from c. 1390 onwards, while Newenham appears on a muster in the Isle of Wight in 1426 (CPR 1388-92, p.85; 1413-15, p.290; 1422-9, p.327). The edition in Channel Islands Petitions mis-identifies the petitioner, and mis-dates the petition by over 100 years.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.15-16 (translation of petition, wrongly dated)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334381/

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