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John WILTON
- Born: Cir 1480
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Died: After 1532
General Notes:
Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"
http://www.jcwilton.com// (no longer exists)
To the King, our Sovereign Lord.
In the most humble wise showing and complaining unto your Highness your faithful and true subject John Rayn of your County of Cornwall
that whereas your said subject is possessed of and in a messuage, six acres of meadow, 100 acres of land, 100 acres of pasture and 10 acres of furze and briars, with their appurtenances, in the Greater Treheyr in your said County,
of the demise and lease of Sir Pears Eggecombe, knight, for term of years not yet ended, by force whereof your said subject hath peaceable taken the issues and profits of the same by a long time till the 12th day of February the 23rd year of your most noble reign, (i.e.1532)
one Richard Hobbe, John Wylton, Richard Rayng and John Serell of your said County, with divers other riotous and misruled persons to the number of seven persons or there about, which names be as yet to your said subject unknown,
unlawfully assembled in riotous manner arrayed, that is to say with staves, daggers and knives,
riotously and with force the said 12th day of February in the said land and other the premises entered,
and then and there the same with force and in riotous manner did keep and maintain one Joan Rayng, widow,
to occupy your said subject's pastures with their cattle and other beasts, and also the said riotous persons not thus contented, but of their further malice to your said subject
prepensed, the foresaid 12th day and year aforesaid divers beasts of your said subject's then and there being, that is to say 8 kine, 6 oxen, 6 heifers, four steers and 2 horses,
in riotous manner and with force did take upon the premises and them did put forth of the same
and conveyed them to a pound, and there did detain and keep the said beasts three days until he had them delivered by the law;
and also, gracious Lord, the said riotous and misruled persons, not thus contented but of their further malice,
have caused the foresaid Joan Rayng to conceive and take several plaints of [sessions] and of covenant broke in the Manor Court of the Greater Treheyr within your said County,
whereby your said subject is grievous [amerced], so that by the reparation in the taking and driving away of his cattle out of the pasture aforesaid
whereby he did lose the profits of them, and also by their unreasonable reparation of your said subject in the court aforesaid your said subject is in manner undone, and like to be undone, to the most perilous example of all other like offenders if condign punishment be not by your Highness in that behalf provided.
May it therefore please your gracious Highness, the premises tenderly considered, to grant your subject your most honourable writs of Subpoena, to be directed unto the said Richard Hobbe, John Wylton, Richard Rayn and John Serell,
commanding them and every of them by the same personally to appear before your Highness and the lords of your most honourable Council in your high court in the Star Chamber at Westminster at a certain day and under a certain pain there to make answer to the premises, and further to abide such order, direction and judgment concerning the premises as may stand with good equity and justice, and your poor subject shall duly pray to God for the preservation of your most royal estate long to endure.
By me, [John Rayn]
John married Unknown. (Unknown was born circa 1486 and died before 1586.)
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