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? No Petitioner named Inquisition taken before Kentwood and Basset at Lostwithiel...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/277/13837

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Reference
SC 8/277/13837
Date
[1381]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Inquisition taken before Kentwood and Basset at Lostwithiel on Monday before St Lawrence in the 5th year of Richard II [1381]: Reynewerd, Dauvant, Tremur, Lova, Lampen, Weynaund, Lawarnwestera, Trevedow, Devan, Ward, Lostquyt and Rogg say that Botreaux, knowing that certain of the community of Essex and Kent, traitors to the King, had armed themselves and rebelled against the King, burned various houses and other goods and beheaded and killed the King's chancellor and treasurer and many others, gathered together 80 traitors to the King in support of this community and other traitors and rose up against the King's law on Wednesday after St John the Baptist 5 Richard II [1381] when the said 80 traitors gathered by Botreaux came with force and arms against the peace to Carminow's manor and broke and destroyed a door, a stone wall and his park there, released 20 of his animals which they killed and took away to Botreaux's manor of Botelet, and killed Carminow's servants in his manor of Boconnoc.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Lostwithiel, [Cornwall]
Looe, Cornwall
Essex
Kent
Boconnoc, Cornwall
Botelet, Cornwall.
People mentioned
John Kentwode (Kentwood)
William Basset
Richard II, King of England
Thomas Reynewerd
Warren Danvant
John Tremur
William Lova
John Lampen
James Weynaund
John Lawarnwestera
John Trevedow
David Devan
Henry Ward
Walter Lostquyt
John Rogg of Looe
William Botriaux (Botreaux), knight
[Simon de Sudbury], Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England
[Robert Hales], Prior of St John of Jerusalem in England, Treasurer
Ralph Carmynow (Carminow) of Boconnoc, knight.
Note
Dated to 1381 since it refers to events of this year and was requested in SC 8/277/13836 which also dates to this year.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/277/13838

For a related writ see SC 8/277/13836

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. IV, 1-12 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1957), p.101 (summary of document)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517784/

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