Catalogue description Petitioners: John Glyn, gentleman Name(s): Glyn, John Addressees: King ...

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Details of SC 8/50/2471
Reference: SC 8/50/2471
Description:
Petitioners: John Glyn, gentleman
Name(s): Glyn, John
Addressees: King
Nature of request: Glyn requests letters to Bodrugan commanding him to deliver Glyn from prison and go at large, and he undertakes to be ready at all times to answer the king on anything laid against him by Goaugh or anyone else. He was imprisoned following a commission to Bodrugan by the false allegation of Goaugh that he had taken a ship laden with wine belonging to Goaugh.
Nature of endorsement: A bill to the councillors of England for a writ of corpus cum causa.
Places mentioned: Cornwall; Landregare [unidentified], [Brittany, France].
People mentioned: Henry Bodrugon (Bodrugan), knight; William le Goaugh of Brittany
Note: The entry in the patent rolls is to the commission referred to in the petition and dates to 28 May 1483. The earlier references on the guard are not relevant to this petition, and the reference to SC 8/29/1439 cannot be to the same individual as this is a petition of 1472 by the widow of a John Glyn who cannot have justice over his murder (CPR 1476-85, p.355).
Date: [1483]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3914
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, Edw V and Ric III, 1476-1485, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.355 (commission to Bodrugan and others to enquire into the complaint of William le Goauth)

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