Catalogue description Petitioners: Robert Hawtmount of Watlington, and tenant of the prince and of his manor...

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Details of SC 8/344/E1306
Reference: SC 8/344/E1306
Description:
Petitioners: Robert Hawtmount of Watlington, and tenant of the prince and of his manor of Watlington.
Name(s): Hawtmount, Robert
Addressees: Lords and others of the council of Edward, Prince of England.
Nature of request: Hawtemount shows that Abrey wears the livery of the prince (one side being white, and the other green like the livery and sign of the prince) and by colour and might of the same gown, and by strength of his bailiwick has committed many robberies, escapes of felons, wrongs and great extortions to the petitioner and others of the same shire. They can have no remedy against Abrey according to the law within the honour of Wallingford. Hawtemount requests that the premises be considered, and Abrey be sent for and commanded to appear before the council at a certain day to stand and answer to all the premises as shall be alleged, and that he make restoration and amends to the petitioner and others of his neighbours according to right and conscience.
Nature of endorsement: 21 November, in the 21st year of E.A letter to the party to be here at [...]day next, at which day he did not come, wherefore another letter [is to be sent] to be here on 27 April in the 22nd year.
Places mentioned: Watlington, Oxfordshire; Wallingford honour; South Weston, Oxfordshire; Aston deanery, [Lincoln diocese]; Chiltern Hundreds, Oxfordshire.
People mentioned: [Edward Plantagenet], prince [of Wales]; John Abrey of South Weston, late summoner of the bishop of Lincoln in Oxfordshire of the deanery of Aston and bailiff of the four and a half hundreds of Chiltern; Bishop of Lincoln.
Note: The petition is dated to 1481 because the petition is dated in the response to 21st November in the 21st year of E[Edward IV].
Date: 1481
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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