Catalogue description Petitioners: Walter Ardern of Warwickshire, esquire. Name(s): Ardern, Walter ...

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Details of SC 8/344/E1307
Reference: SC 8/344/E1307
Description:
Petitioners: Walter Ardern of Warwickshire, esquire.
Name(s): Ardern, Walter
Addressees: Prince.
Nature of request: Ardern shows that where as his son and heir John, by crafty means and by such force and might as he has, and seeing that his father is but an innocent man intending no trouble but to live upon his lands in rest and peace has entered upon his lands, against his will and contrary to the law and ousted him, his wife and other children from his lands to his great sorrow and utter undoing without the prince's gracious aid. He requests that having considered the matter, and by the advice of his council, the prince will direct letters missive to John to end his occupation, and to appear before the prince and his council at a certain day to answer the premises, and the council to rule as is thought most appropriate to right law and conscience.
Nature of endorsement: [...] April, 22 Edw. IV.A letter to the parties to appear here [...] past.
Places mentioned: Warwickshire.
People mentioned: [Edward Plantagenet], prince [of Wales]; John Ardern, son and heir of the petitioner.
Note: The petition is dated to 1482 because the response is dated to April, 22 Edw. IV.
Date: 1482
Related material:

For another petition possibly by the same petitioner, see SC 8/89/4403
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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