Tenants of the Duke of Gloucester in Wix and Manningtree. Chancellor. The tenants...

Petitioners

Tenants of the Duke of Gloucester in Wix and Manningtree.

Addressees

Chancellor.

Nature of request

The tenants of the Duke of Gloucester in Wix and Manningtree state that an inquisition has been held into the damage sustained by Thomas Hardyng at the time of the uprising (of 1381), and that the verdict of this inquisition has been returned in Chancery. They ask that they might be granted a supersedeas, as they are imprisoned and their lands have been valued at Thomas's suit, and that Thomas might be removed from his suit until the Chancellor and others of the council have spoken their will on the verdict.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Wix, [Essex]

Manningtree, [Essex]

Essex.

People mentioned

[Thomas of Woodstock], Duke of Gloucester

Thomas Hardyng.

For another petition on the same matter see SC 8/21/1031

For a jury list relating to another petition on this matter see SC 8/113/5630A

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), pp.58-60, p.520 (writs of supersedeas stopping the suit of Hardyng against the petitioners and others)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), p.257 (writ of supersedeas omnino)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.442 (commission to inquire into the houses of Hardyng destroyed in the insurrection, their value and those responsible)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.275 (no.8) (full edition of a related petition)