Richard de Cave. de Cave Richard King and council. Richard de Cave requests that...

Petitioners

Richard de Cave.

Name(s)

de Cave, Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Richard de Cave requests that the king send a writ to Robert Destokes to hand over the land which he seized into the king's hand, as he was never against the king. He also requests that he send a writ to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to enquire into the truth of his deeds and behaviour, and that he consider that the bishop of Ely, Lord de Somery and others have fully testified that he remained in the Isle of Ely during the uprising.

Nature of endorsement

The king is to be informed of the cause etc. in Chancery, and justice is to be done there.

Places mentioned

Buckinghamshire

Isle of Ely, [Cambridgeshire].

People mentioned

Robert Destokes

sheriff of Buckinghamshire

[John Hotham] bishop of Ely

[John de Somery] Lord de Somery.

For a similar petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/6/294

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.451 (two entries, one to Robert de Stok to return to Richard de Cave his lands in Shiryngton (Sherington) [Buckinghamshire] and his goods and chattels, upon his finding security to answer to the king in case he will speak against him, and one to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to release him from prison upon his finding similar security)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.398b-399a, no.65 (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 65 (summary of references)