ECR 01 317
Reference code
ECR 01 317
Title
Modbury, Devon: Letter concerning suit at court
Level
Item
Date
30 November 1453
Content description
Letter from the Provost (Westbury) to the incumbent of the priory of Modbury. The tenants of Penquyte [Penquit], parcel of the priory, used to owe suit to the hundred of Ermyngton [Ermington], before the Priory came into the hands of the College, but have since abstained. The lords of the hundred have complained, and the Provost, after taking advice of his learned counsel, recognises that the tenants of Penquyte have no right to be discharged from suit at that Court, and asks the farmer to inform them of this. The Provost has however made it a condition that the lords of the hundred pardon all the tenants such amercements as have been levied upon them for the time that is past, as John Deniston, the King's sergeant can tell them at large. Written at London.
Endorsed: in die sancte Agnetis secundo recepi has litteras de ballivo in anno liiij
Seal. Traces of an applied seal, round, 25.mm. red wax.
Endorsed: in die sancte Agnetis secundo recepi has litteras de ballivo in anno liiij
Seal. Traces of an applied seal, round, 25.mm. red wax.
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