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Roger atte Touneshende; Walter de Usgate (Ousegate); Henry [de Usgate (Ousegate),...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/245/12245

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Reference
SC 8/245/12245
Date
[1340]
Description
Petitioners
Roger atte Touneshende; Walter de Usgate (Ousegate); Henry [de Usgate (Ousegate), son of Walter de Ousgate; John Mous (Mouse); Thomas Huberd; John [Huberd], son of Thomas Huberd; John Niel; William Ferour; John Ballard; Robert Wiot; Thomas Ballard; Adam Godefrey (Godfrey); William le Neue; Adam atte Churche (Church); John Derby; Thomas Scace; Henry Scace; John Pole; Walter Jelion; John atte Touneshende (Townsend); John Coldham; Peter Arnold; John Reve (Reeve); Adam Smyth (Smith); John Howard; Hugh Amyz; Robert Hod; John Dekel; Milo Tabbyng; Thomas Arnald (Arnold); Henry atte Bek.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The petitioners, tenants of the earl of Pembroke, request that they be granted a writ to the sheriff of Norfolk to surcease, and that they are able to find sufficient mainprise to be before the justices at the day of the assize in the capias to answer the false plea brought against them by writ of trespass by Cathenache and Gras for which they were attached.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
People mentioned
Laurence de Hastyngges (Hastings), Earl of Pembroke
Roger Cathenache
Richard le Gras.
Note
The petition dates to 1340 as the privy seal warrant with which the petition was formerly enclosed and the order to the sheriff of Norfolk to release the petitioners at mainprise date to 13 March 1340 (C 81/262/12631; CCR 1339-41, p.460).
Related material

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no. 12631 in C 81/262

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1339-1341, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.460 (order to the sheriff to release the petitioners at mainprise)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439851/

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