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

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Details of SC 8/23/1143B
Reference: SC 8/23/1143B
Description:
Petitioners: Thomas Paunfeld.
Name(s): Paunfeld, Thomas
Addressees: [Lords and commons in parliament].
Nature of request: Thomas Paunfeld continues his complaint against the Prior and convent of Barnwell. He requests a writ summoning the people of Chesterton to attest to the truth of what he says, and another summoning the Prior of Barnwell and Robert Scot, one of the canons, to present their evidence on their behalf, and that the judgment in a plea in Common Pleas, and other evidence which he specifies, might also be brought. He asks that if they cannot prove their right, they should make amends to the people of Chesterton, and that Chesterton be seized into the king's hand, and granted to its free tenants to farm as Godmanchester has been, which suffered in a similar way from the oppressions of the Prior of Huntingdon. And if the king should confirm the Prior and convent in their right, that they should pay as much for the farm as the people of Chesterton were prepared to pay - £10 more than at present - and that the people of Chesterton should be quit of bond service. He also requests compensation for his own sufferings. [The foot of this document is illegible.]
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Chesterton [Cambridgeshire]; Bernewelle (Barnwell) [Cambridgeshire]; Gumcestre (Godmanchester), [Huntingdonshire]; Sterisbrigge (Stourbridge), [Cambridgeshire]; Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned: People of Chesterton; Prior of Barnwell; Robert Scot (Scott), canon of Barnwell; Richard Norton, justice; Prior of Huntingdon; Lord Burnel; John Tubbetot of Cambridgeshire; Lord Fournyvale (Furnival); Thomas Langely (Langley), Bishop of Durham and Chancellor of England; William Donne, canon of Barnwell; Thomas Brasyngton (Brassington), canon of Barnwell; William Pleys, clerk of Barnwell; Simon Deye alias Simon Reynolds, of Chesterton and Cambridge; Simon Reynolds alias Simon Deye, of Chesterton and Cambridge; William Chapman of Chesterton; John Outlaw, Prior of Barnwell.
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.A note on the dorse, in a later hand, says 'Petitiones anno 2 H V'.
Date: [? 1414]
Related material:

The first half of this petition is SC 8/23/1143A

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 8/23/1143A)

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