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Maud Dylyngton of Somerset, widow of Richard Dylyngton. Dylyngton Maud [King] [This...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16001

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This record is about the Maud Dylyngton of Somerset, widow of Richard Dylyngton. Dylyngton Maud [King] [This... dating from [? c. 1360-? c. 1385] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/340/16001
Date
[? c. 1360-? c. 1385]
Description
Petitioners
Maud Dylyngton of Somerset, widow of Richard Dylyngton.
Name(s)
Dylyngton, Maud
Addressees
[King]
Nature of request
[This petition is badly damaged] Maud Dylyngton makes three requests:1) She states that Richard Dylyngton, her former husband, was seised of various [lands] in Somerset, in his demesnes as in fee, which he gave and granted to William Assheford, Robert . . . which they then gave and granted to Richard and Maud and Richard's heirs forever. Now the Abbot of Muchelney is harassing and molesting Maud, with the intention of occupying her lands, pursuing her through the courts, and physically threatening and assaulting her and her servants. She asks the king to consider the great oppressions inflicted upon her, and the destruction of her poor estate, and asks that the Abbot might be ordered to appear before the king in Chancery on a certain date, to explain his actions.2) She states that there is on her land an ash tree, one branch of which, worth 2d., recently fell off in a high wind: and because of this, the Abbot has sued a writ to take twenty cartloads of wood worth 100s from her.3) She states that the Abbot is harassing her by suing a writ of right of wardship, with regard to her lands and her son.4) [Very little remains of this petition] She states that the Abbot is amercing her and her tenants.5) [Very little remains of this petition] This petition concerns a John Teillour, her tenant, and a plea of trespass.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Somerset
Muchelney, [Somerset].
People mentioned
Richard Dylyngton
William Ayssheford
Robert . . .
Abbot of Muchelney
Thomas [Dylyngton], son of Maud Dylyngton
William Paulet
Nicholas Buttelbury (?)
Robert Veel
Thomas Beauchamp
John Teillour (Taylor), tenant of Maud Dylyngton.
Note
Tentatively dated on the basis of the hand.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736482/

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