Catalogue description Petitioners: Robert Martyn of Yeovilton. Name(s): Martyn, Robert Addressees:...

Ordering and viewing options

  • Free

  • Download format PDF
  • Approximate size 1 MB

Order up to 10 items per basket, and up to 100 in a 30 day period.

Details of SC 8/60/2974
Reference: SC 8/60/2974
Description:
Petitioners: Robert Martyn of Yeovilton.
Name(s): Martyn, Robert
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Martyn requests remedy for he gave custody of his lands whilst he was in the war of the king in Scotland to his steward who falsely eloped with his wife to Rockbourne, and with force and arms with a great number of men took and carried away his chattels. Croucheston and Martyn's wife have jointly brought a writ of novel disseisin against Martyn intending to prove that she was not his wife without making a divorce between Martyn and his wife.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Ievelton (Yeovilton), [Somerset]; Rockbourne, Hampshire.
People mentioned: John de Croucheston, Steward of the petitioner; Edward de Mohermer; Margaret [Martyn], wife of the petitioner.
Note: The petition dates to 1336 for a commission of oyer and terminer was issued to examine the complaint made by Martyn (CPR 1334-8, pp.280-1).
Date: [1336]
Related material:

For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/60/2979A
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 5556
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.280-1 (commission of oyer and terminer into the complaint)

Image viewer

Preview a low-resolution image of this record.

Subject image
Thumb item {{thumb.id}}
Image   of {{thumbImages.length}}
Loading image ...

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research