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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Grauntpee of Coventry; Agnes Grauntpee, wife of John Grauntpee. Grauntpee; Grauntpee...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/330/E974
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This record is about the John Grauntpee of Coventry; Agnes Grauntpee, wife of John Grauntpee. Grauntpee; Grauntpee... dating from [1404] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/330/E974
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1404]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Grauntpee of Coventry; Agnes Grauntpee, wife of John Grauntpee.
- Name(s)
- Grauntpee; Grauntpee, John; Agnes
- Addressees
- King and council of the present parliament.
- Nature of request
- The Grauntpees request that both the record of the assize of novel disseisin by which the Wymeswolds recovered lands and tenements from them in Coventry and Stretehay and Oschirch be made to come before the king and that they be examined separately concerning the erasures and amendments made by Stretehay to the record, and their answers be heard and that remedy be ordained at the king's discretion. The Grauntpees complain that true copies of the record were made of the record by Stretehay and Oschirch, the latter's copy being given to the Grauntpees by which they were advised that they could reverse the judgment because of errors and have sued by writ of error for the record with all the things touching it to be sent before the king, but the late mayor and bailiffs only set it after a writ of sicut alias and by then Stretehay by the procurement of the Wymeswolds had erased and amended the record.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be sent to the Bench of the king and let the chief justice and his companions there be given the power by the authority of parliament to make to come before them there the record that the petition makes mention of as Stretehay and Eschirche named in the petition and examine them of the matter comprised in the petition and hear and understand their arguments and the circumstances, and the justices are do what seems by their discretion ought to be done by the same authority.
- Places mentioned
- Coventry, [Warwickshire].
- People mentioned
- William Wymundeswold (Wymeswold)
- Katherine [Wymundeswold (Wymeswold)]
- Philip Stretehay, clerk of royal pleas at Coventry
- John Oschirch, common clerk of Coventry.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated with some certainty to 1404 as the petition refers to events around the feast of St Thomas the Apostle in 4 [Hen. IV] (21 Dec. 1402) and refers to writs being returnable in Easter and Michaelmas in what must have been 1403. As the petition is a petition to parliament, it seems that it must almost certainly date to either the January or October parliaments in 1404. As the October parliament was held at Coventry, and the petition refers to Coventry matters, it is tempting to locate the petition in that parliament.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682969/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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