John WILTON

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Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

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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.)