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Piers de Luffenham. de Luffenham Piers King and council Luffenham shows that he received...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/167

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Reference
SC 8/4/167
Date
[1316-1320]
Description
Petitioners
Piers de Luffenham.
Name(s)
de Luffenham, Piers
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Luffenham shows that he received a collation from the king and from Queen Margaret made for his life of the hospital of St Bartholomew near Oxford receiving from the keeping of the hospital. He complains that by the simplicity of Westbury, the late master, healthy people have entered the hospital and have taken its goods to their own use wasting its assets and mistreated Luffenham. He requests that he be restored to his estate and the hospital be redressed in its estate.
Nature of endorsement
This petition should be delivered into Chancery, and the commissions should be examined, and the process held upon the contents in the petition, and let it be that right be done for the salvation of the hospital.
Places mentioned
Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England
Margaret of France, Queen of England
William de Westbury, late master of the hospital of St Bartholomew near Oxford
John de Conibe (Cornwall)
William de Frylesford
John de Merston (Marston)
John de Botle
Robert de Yslep (Islip)
Robert de . . .
. . . de Westbury
Henry de Harcla, then chancellor of Oxford.
Note
The petition has to date to the period of mid 1316 to 1320. Luffenham was collated on 18 September 1315, and this petition makes reference to Hillary 1316. Luffenham made a further petition in 1320 which clearly postdates this one.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/327/E847

For a later petition by same petitioner, see SC 8/4/166

For a related petition, see SC 8/123/6113

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5217
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.380b-381a (no.88) (Latin summary of a petition by the same petitioner on a related matter)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060287/

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