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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Martyn of Devon, husbandman and tenant of the prince. Martyn Thomas Council...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/344/E1282
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This record is about the Thomas Martyn of Devon, husbandman and tenant of the prince. Martyn Thomas Council... dating from [1471-1483] 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 8/344/E1282
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1471-1483]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Martyn of Devon, husbandman and tenant of the prince.
- Name(s)
- Martyn, Thomas
- Addressees
- Council of the prince.
- Occupation
- husbandman
- Nature of request
- Martyn states that he is vexed daily by Ferrowe who for the last four years and more has wrongfully impleaded him in the shire [court] at Exeter by 20 diverse plaints of trespass, and when the petitioner appeared and pleade to the said plaints, Ferrowe would be non-suited and has been heavily amerced, yet sues by several means. Also, when Martyn was in God's and the King's peace, Ferrowe, Clerk and others came to place at Smeardon on 24 April last in arrayed manner of war and carried away seven oxen valued at 7 marks and took them to Tetcott and sold them. They subsequently said to the petitioner that they would give him the money if he would acquit them of all manner of actions. Martyn requests remedy as he is not of the power to sue at the common law and is a poor man living by the labour of his hands and has 12 children, a blind woman, and a bedridden mother.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Devon
- Lydford, Devon
- Exeter, [Devon]
- Smerdon (Smeardon), [Devon]
- Tetcott, Devon.
- People mentioned
- [Edward Plantagenet], prince [of Wales]
- Richard Ferrowe of Tetcott, husbandman
- John Clerk, parson of Tetcott, clerk
- John Harry, servant to John Clerk
- William Harry, servant to John Clerk
- John Antony, [...].
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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)
- English
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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/C9736702/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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