Catalogue description Petitioners: Thomas Paunfeld. Name(s): Paunfeld, Thomas Addressees: Lords...

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Details of SC 8/23/1143A
Reference: SC 8/23/1143A
Description:
Petitioners: Thomas Paunfeld.
Name(s): Paunfeld, Thomas
Addressees: Lords and commons in parliament.
Nature of request: The first half of a lengthy bill from Thomas Paunfeld making various complaints against the Prior and convent of Barnwell, firstly on his own behalf, asking for judgment in this parliament on the matter of his outlawry, which he claims is unlawful, and also putting forward the grievances of the king's tenants of Chesterton against the Prior and canons, who claim that they are their bondsmen, while they claim to be the king's free tenants, and asking for a remedy.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Chesterton, [Cambridgeshire]; Westminster; Bernewelle (Barnwell), [Cambridgeshire]; Kings Langley, [Hertfordshire]; London.
People mentioned: John Cokayn, justice; the Prior and canons of Barnwell; William Hankford, justice; the king's tenants of Chesterton.
Note: Rot. Parl. vol. IV, p.56b (no.5), assigns this petition to 1414, and most of the surrounding petitions that can be dated seem to be from that year.
Date: [? 1414]
Related material:

The second half of this petition is SC 8/23/1143B

An associated petition in French is SC 8/23/1141
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1069
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.57a-61b (no.5) (full edition of original petition and of SC 8/23/1143B)

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