Source: Public Record Office Lists & Indexes xvi
Title: List of Early Chancery Proceedings preserved in the Public Record Office. Vol. II. , 1903, London, various pages as listed.
Date: [1475-1515]
Place: Cornwall

Bundle 58¹

Page 264, [1475-1485]

Reference within the bundle: 345
Name of the person applying to the Chancery for a writ: James Pluk and Johane, his wife, sister and heir of Walter Carne.
Name of the other party in the suit or person to whom the writ was to be directed: Hancok Harry
Brief account of the main subject of the suit: Detention of deeds relating to lands in Cardynan.
County: Cornwall.

Bundle 106²

Page 83, [1486-1493]

Reference within the bundle: 45
Name of the person applying to the Chancery for a writ: James, son and heir of William Pluk.
Name of the other party in the suit or person to whom the writ was to be directed: John Hancok Harry
Brief account of the main subject of the suit: Detention of deeds relating to land in Bofelyn and Atfen, late of the said William.
County: Cornwall

Bundle 155³

Page 263, [1486-1515]

Reference within the bundle: 1
Name of the person applying to the Chancery for a writ: John, son and heir of John Pluk.
Name of the other party in the suit or person to whom the writ was to be directed: William Burges
Brief account of the main subject of the suit: Detention of deeds relating to messuages and land in Carne and Venn.
County: Cornwall

Bundle 348⁴

Page 354, [1504-1515]

Reference within the bundle: 71
Name of the person applying to the Chancery for a writ: John, son and heir of John Plucke, and ward of John Tregasowe, knight.
Name of the other party in the suit or person to whom the writ was to be directed: William Burges, executor of the said John, the father.
Brief account of the main subject of the suit: Detention of deeds relating to messuage and lands in Bofenell, Venne, and Carn.
County: Cornwall

The Records: Further information
The Early Chancery Proceedings preserved in the Public Record Office form a collection of over 100,000 documents extending from about the tenth year of Richard II⁵ to the end of the reign of Philip and Mary⁶ . The early history of this collection is obscure, but it appears to have been brought together from no less than four overlapping series. It has now been arranged roughly in chronological order, according to the title of the Chancellor addressed in each bill, which in most cases is the only evidence of date immediately available; but as the office of Chancellor was sometimes held by the same person at intervals, or by different persons of the same title at dates not widely different, the arrangement thus effected is only approximately chronological, while the number of the documents has rendered it impracticable to devote to each the time necessary for a minute examination. The documents consist of bills of complaint, answers, replications, rejoinders, &c. writs, interrogatories, depositions and exhibits. Any decrees or orders recorded will be found endorsed upon the bills, the series of Entry-Books of decrees and orders not beginning until a later date. In some cases copies of the pleadings occur, made for the assistance of commissioners appointed to take evidence or sworn statements of the parties. The suits may be divided into two main classes: (1) Those in which application is made for a writ of ‘sub poena’ to be directed to the other party, and (2) those in the nature of appeals from local jurisdictions, in which the petitioner prays for a writ of ‘certiorari’ or ‘habeas corpus cum causâ’ to be directed to the court from which appeal is made. When the nature of the writ applied for is not specified in the text, it may be assumed to have been a writ of ‘sub poena.’ Most of the suits relating to landed property belong to the first class, while information upon questions of social and economic importance and of legal history other than that of the law of real property, will be found more abundantly in the second class.

Notes:
[1] Addressed to the bishop of Lincoln: 1475 to 1480, and 1483 to 1485.
[2] Addressed to John, archbishop of Canterbury: 1486 to 1493.
[3] Addressed to the archbishop of Canterbury: 1486 to 1493, and 1504 to 1515.
[5] 22 June 1386-21 June 1387
[6] 17 November 1558