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Richard Calf of Loughborough, merchant. Calf Richard King and council. merchant Richard...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/6/293

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Reference
SC 8/6/293
Date
[1321-1322]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Calf of Loughborough, merchant.
Name(s)
Calf, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
Richard Calf of Loughborough, merchant, states that last Lammas (1 August) Ralph de Crophull came to Hemington and Sutton Bonington, and took from him four sacks of good wool, worth forty-four pounds, which he had under lock and key in two chambers, carried them off and did as he pleased with them. He also broke the doors and the locks of the chambers - wrongly, and against the king's peace, and to Richard's great loss. He requests a remedy, as Ralph's power in his country is such that no-one can have recovery against him at the common law.
Nature of endorsement
He is to have a writ of the king's grace.[Further down the dorse is the beginning of another endorsement, probably deleted, 'He is to declare . . . [one more word, looking like 'unques', possibly written over an erasure]].
Places mentioned
Loughborough, [Leicestershire]
Hemington, [Leicestershire]
Bonyngton (Sutton Bonington), [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned
Ralph de Crophull.
Note
One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1666
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.407b, no.120 (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.120 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060415/

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