Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations and tables
- David Dymond, President 2012–21, an appreciation
- Victor Gray, Chairman 2014–21, an appreciation
- Preface and acknowledgements
- John Brian Weller (1930–2009), an appreciation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Editorial conventions
- THE DOCUMENTS
- I Charters, mid-twelfth century to 1360
- II Extents, early thirteenth century to early fourteenth century
- III Accounts, 1285 to 1482
- IV Building accounts, 1343 to 1466
- V Court rolls, 1305/6 to 1422 and 1545
- VI Rentals, 1379–80 to 1683
- VII Petition and legal documents relating to a riot in 1481
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of people and places
- Index of subjects
- The Suffolk Records Society
VII - Petition and legal documents relating to a riot in 1481
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations and tables
- David Dymond, President 2012–21, an appreciation
- Victor Gray, Chairman 2014–21, an appreciation
- Preface and acknowledgements
- John Brian Weller (1930–2009), an appreciation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Editorial conventions
- THE DOCUMENTS
- I Charters, mid-twelfth century to 1360
- II Extents, early thirteenth century to early fourteenth century
- III Accounts, 1285 to 1482
- IV Building accounts, 1343 to 1466
- V Court rolls, 1305/6 to 1422 and 1545
- VI Rentals, 1379–80 to 1683
- VII Petition and legal documents relating to a riot in 1481
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of people and places
- Index of subjects
- The Suffolk Records Society
Summary
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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- Monks Eleigh Manorial Records, 1210-1683 , pp. 295 - 302Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2022