John Glynne of Morval, gentleman. Glynne John ? Chancellor of the prince and his...

Petitioners

John Glynne of Morval, gentleman.

Name(s)

Glynne, John

Addressees

? Chancellor of the prince and his commissioners.

Nature of request

[The petition consists of a series of complaints, but is badly damaged, and there is visible evidence on the bottom that at least one further complaint followed, though too little now remains of it].Petition in seven or more parts].Glynn shows in articles below the wrongs done to him by Trethwyn, and requests that Trethwyn be summoned before them to answer unto the same, and while they [? The chancellor and commissioners] are here in the country, to set such a direction as their wisdom shall think appropriate.1) Glynne complains that Trethewyn came with 20 men on 4 February in the 13th year of the king's reign to a tenement and certain lands belonging to the petitioner in Tregarland and forcibly entered them, and there, riotously and contrary to the king's peace and laws, took wheat, oats and barley to the value of 10 marks and took it to his own land at Nether Keverell and has not made recompense.2) Trethewyn on the Thursday next before the Purification of Our Lady last sent Baseley and Hick with other evilly disposed people to the petitioner's place and there they made an assault upon Robert Pall, the petitioner's servant going about his master's business, and there feloniously killed him. Trethewyn as coroner sent another of his servants to enquire of this and had the leach who attended Pall indicted and sits on the indictment and will in no way present it to the justices of Assize.3) Trethewyn came with 20 other armed men on 10th May last past to the petitioners house in Morval and assaulted him and entered his close and cast down the ditches and hedges and saying that he would make a common highway through it, the same close being the petitioner and his ancestor's severalty.4) Trethwyn on 4th April in the 14th year of the king came and riotously entered into certain of the petitioner's lands at [...] and took various livestock of the petitioner and kept them [...] made a fine in 40s. for them.5) Trethewyn on 20th September last sent diverse of his servants to the market town of Looe, and there [...] a servant of the petitioner called Mayhou buying victuals in the town and assaulted him [...] and put him in fear of his life, and took a long knife from him and a [...] and still keep them.6) Trethwyn [...] came to the house of the petitioner and entered at midnight and carried a servant of the petitioner's called John Whyddow away to Keveral [...] for three days and nights7) [Only a fragment of this entry survives, and it is unclear if there were more following it].

Nature of endorsement

John Glynne against Thomas Troderny

Places mentioned

Curgalett (Tregarland), [Cornwall]

Nether Keverall (Keveral), [Cornwall]

Marvol (Morval), [Cornwall]

Looe, [Cornwall].

People mentioned

Thomas Trethewyn (Trethewy, Troderny), gentleman

John Baseley, servant of Thomas Trethewyn

Nicholas Hyk (Hick), servant of Thomas Trethewyn

Robert Pall, servant of the petitioner

Gerard, servant of Thomas Trethewyn

Mayhou (Matthew), servant of the petitioner.

For a petition by the petitioner's mother, see SC 8/29/1439

For another petition by Trethewey complaining of the petitioner, see SC 8/345/E1343

For another petition by Trethewy, see SC 8/345/E1345

For another petition complaining of the same individual, see SC 8/345/E1341

For another petition by Trethewy complaining about the petitioner, see SC 8/345/E1344