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Humphrey Stacy of London. Stacy Humphrey King and council. Stacy shows that various...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/171

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This record is about the Humphrey Stacy of London. Stacy Humphrey King and council. Stacy shows that various... dating from [c. 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/4/171
Date
[c. 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Humphrey Stacy of London.
Name(s)
Stacy, Humphrey
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Stacy shows that various quantities of grain were taken from him in the 3rd year of the reign by Pelham. When he went to demand payment Pelham had him thrown into prison. Humphrey sued a writ of imprisonment by order of the king granted outside parliament, and from that time until the present the matter was not able to come to an inquest as those who would hold it were frightened by Pelham. He requests payment and that he grant that he have execution of the law.1)
Nature of endorsement
Concerning the delay in judgement he should have a writ to the justices before whom the plea is pending that they should proceed to judgement with speed.2) Concerning the money owed coram rege.
Places mentioned
London.
People mentioned
John de Pelham.
Note
The dating is difficult. The reference to an order had from the king out of parliament may refer back to the earlier parliamentary petition surviving as SC 8/4/170. This petition would therefore be some short time after 1320. The document is contemporary with SC 8/4/172 which is a petition by the same petitioner and in the same hand.
Related material

For another petition on the same matter by the same petitioner, see SC 8/4/170

For a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/4/172

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7286
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), p.381b (no.92) (Latin summary of SC 8/4/170)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060291/

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