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Isabel Weryng, widow of Robert Weryng. Weryng Isabel King. Weryng requests that the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/345/E1338

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This record is about the Isabel Weryng, widow of Robert Weryng. Weryng Isabel King. Weryng requests that the... dating from [c. 1464] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/345/E1338
Date
[c. 1464]
Description
Petitioners
Isabel Weryng, widow of Robert Weryng.
Name(s)
Weryng, Isabel
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Weryng requests that the king hear her complaint of the wrong done against her by Tyllam, Rawe and Serell who came to Trewint on 16 May in the 4th year of the reign of Edward Iv with force and arms, and against the king's peace and broke into her house and carried away various [named] items.
Nature of endorsement
Tavistock. A letter has been sent.
Places mentioned
Trewint, [Cornwall]
Altarnun, [Cornwall]
Lawhitton, [Cornwall].
People mentioned
Thomas Tyllam of the parish of Lawhitton, husbandman
Thomas Rawe of the parish of Lawhitton, husbandman
Nicholas Serell of the parish of Lawhitton, husbandman.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1464 because the petition makes mention of the date of an offence which was 16 May in the 4th year of the reign of Edward IV.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Unsorted Miscellanea of the Exchequer (transferred July 1932).
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736759/

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