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Walter de Molesworthe (Molesworth), Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/16

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Reference
SC 8/1/16
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Walter de Molesworthe (Molesworth), Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Name(s)
de Molesworthe (Molesworth), Walter
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Nature of request
Molesworth states that he has been amerced in 100s. before Ralph de Sandwiz, justice of Newgate because he refused to receive the writ of the same justice because it wasn't sealed with the seal of the king in as much as it was contained in the oath that the sheriff swore at the Exchequer that no writs were to be received if they were not sealed with the seal of the king, except a writ of a justice in Eyre, or from a justice of the Forest. Molesworthe prays the grace of the king that he remove and remedy the 100s. which is delivered by a rule in Exchequer and by the order of the justice from a levy from the goods and chattels of Molesworthe in as much as the justice's writ was not excluded by the oath of Molesworthe.
Nature of endorsement
The cause and form of the oath and amercement should be brought, and the king is to be certified of the circumstances of the amercement and oath.
People mentioned
Ralph de Sandwiz [Sandwich], justice of Newgate.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 on the basis of Rot. Parl., vol I, p.154b (no. 5) which dates this complaint to 1302. As SC 8/1/15 records that the petition was heard in parliament it must have been in one of the two parliaments of 1302, with the writ recorded in CCR 1302-7, p.44 being issued in July 1303.
Related material

For another petition containing the same complaint see SC 8/1/15

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5588
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.44 (writ following the details of the endorsement to SC 8/1/15)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.154b (no.5) (edition of petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060128/

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