Catalogue description Petitioners: Nicholas Pontyngdon. Name(s): Pontyngdon, Nicholas Addressees: ...

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Details of SC 8/21/1046
Reference: SC 8/21/1046
Description:
Petitioners: Nicholas Pontyngdon.
Name(s): Pontyngdon, Nicholas
Addressees: King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request: Nicholas Pontyngdon states that his father, Thomas de Pontyngdon of the county of Devon, was forcibly ejected from his manor of Bickleigh by Philip de Courtornay, who still holds it, claiming untruthfully that Thomas was a bastard; and as he is so powerful in the country, Nicholas can have no remedy at common law. He requests that the matter might be examined in the present parliament, or before the king's council, by the most sufficient knights and squires of the county, and that a remedy then be ordained.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Bikelegh (Bickleigh), [Devon].
People mentioned: Thomas de Pontyngdon, father of petitioner; Philip de Courtornay (Courtenay).
Note: This is not, word for word, the same petition as that edited in Rot. Parl vol. III p.302a, which is found on the roll of the parliament held at Winchester, in January 1393; but it seems to be from the same stage of the proceedings, and makes the same request - with the addition that the matter is to be examined either in the present parliament, or before the king's council, which is not found in the Rot. Parl. version - so it seems probable that this is an alternative version of the same petition, rather than an earlier or later petition on the same matter.
Date: [? 1393]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/135/6718
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 6569
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.302a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, text modified and with responsesemicolonhere or transcription of related petition)

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