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Ralph Lanyeyn. Lanyeyn Ralph Chancellor. Lanyeyn states that after Tregaminian died...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/305/15206
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/305/15206
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1387]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ralph Lanyeyn.
- Name(s)
- Lanyeyn, Ralph
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Lanyeyn states that after Tregaminian died without issue, his lands and tenements in Tregaminian and elsewhere in Cornwall descended to Sibyl Lanyeyn and her sister Isabel and their heirs, and Sibyl, Isabel and her husband John Robin granted the lands to Lanyen, who was peaceably seised of the same for a long time until ousted by Park who claimed that it had been found by inquisition that Robin was a villein of the princess. Consequently, and by reason of the princess's death, a moiety of the land belonged to the King who granted it to Langueth. Lanyeyn requests that a writ of scire facias be directed to Langueth to appear on a certain day to say why Lanyeyn should not have the land and why Langueth's patent should not be repealed.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Tregaminian [in Morvah], Cornwall.
- People mentioned
- James Tregamynyon (Tregaminian)
- Sibyl Lanyeyn, [mother of the petitioner]
- Isabel [Robin], wife of John Robin, sister of Sibyl Lanyeyn
- John Robyn (Robin)
- James Park, keeper of the fees of the princess
- [Joan of Kent], princess [of Wales]
- Alexander Langueth, esquire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1387. In 1386 the escheator in Cornwall was ordered to remove the King's hand and meddle no further with a moiety of the lands late of Joyce de Tregemyngnoun, delivering any issues taken to the petitioner, as only a moiety should belong to the King because Isabel, one of the heirs, married John Robyn, a villein (CCR 1385-9, p. 71). In 1387 the moiety remaining in the King's hand was granted for life to Langueth, during the lives of Isabel and John (CPR 1385-9, p. 304).
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1921), p.71 (1386 order to remove King's hand from moiety of lands of Joyce de Tregemyngnoun, delivering petitioner any issues taken thereof)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.304 (1387 grant for life to petitioner of all lands and tenements late of James Tregamynyon)
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Record URL
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