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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2023
This affray took place in the month of August and the year must be 1481, the twenty-first regnal year of Edward IV and the final year of Adam Turnour’s lease of the manor of Monks Eleigh. He was lessee, or farmer, of the manor between 1460/61 (at the latest) and 1479/80. Turnour, as lessee (and the victim of kidnap amidst the disorder) and his landlord and lord of the manor, the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury (whose manorial stock had been purloined), took the matter to one of the royal courts, although it is not clear which. The documents suggest it went to court as an equity case: the records transcribed here are all in English and comprise paper copies of an equity procedure, comprising the petition (with draft) of the plaintiffs (the prior and Turnour), which formed the bill of complaint to open the case, the answer of the defendants (William Hobart, his sons and servants) and the plaintiffs’ replication (responding to the answer). The result is unknown, although it is notable that Andrew Vyncent, not Adam Turnour, was the lessee of the manor in the farmer’s accounts for 1481–82 (CCA-DCc/MA/6, fol. 138v, not included in this volume).
In this set of documents, which are far more narrative than the other more formulaic ones in this volume, the original spelling has been retained to reflect Middle English usage, so that the rest of the volume’s standard rules of modernising do not apply here.
Copy Petition to the King by the Plaintiffs
To the Kynge o[ur sover]eigne lorde
Shewen unto youre highnesse your full humble oratoure and bedeman the priour of your monastery of Christchirche in Caunterbery and youre humble subiecte and true liegeman Adam Turnour fermour unto your seid Oratour of his maner of Monkes Illegh in the Counte of Suffolk piteously complaynyng and every of theym severally compleyneth howe that the 6 day of Auguste in the 21st (xxjth) yere of your most noble reigne William Hobert thelder of Monkes Illegh foresaid, clothmaker, Thomas Hobert and Nicholas Hobert his sones beyng with hym daily in housold and William Clerk, Thomas Ayleward, Henry Stannard and William Stannard servantez of the seid William Hobert with other evyll disposed persones, their adherents assembled and arrayed in riotouse wise and in maner of werre [war]
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