Description

Petitioners:	Walter Comyng; Ralph Honte; Roger Cadetres; William Hexta; John Bromyng; Jules Robert; Jules Hexta; John Wyndhert; all of them foresters and tenants of the forest of Dartmoor.
Name(s):	Comyng; Honte; Cadetres; Hexta; Bromyng; Robert; Hexta; Wyndhert, Walter; Ralph; Roger; William; John; Jules; Jules; John
Addressees:	King and council.
Nature of request:	The petitioners request relief of onerous charges set on them for various trespasses heard before the justices of oyer et terminer appointed in Devon in the fiftieth year of the king's grandfather.
Nature of endorsement:	It pleases the king that this should be done at the discretion of the council and the relevant justices.
Places mentioned:	Devon.
People mentioned:	Hugh Courtenay, earl of Devon; Robert Belknap.
Date derivation:	Datable from internal evidence to early in the reign of Richard II.

Date

1377

Catalogue reference

SC 8/107/5311

Dept

Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly entitled Special Collections

Series

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

Piece

5301-5350. Individual petitions are described and dated at Item level.

Image contains

1 item for the catalogue reference

Number of image files: 1