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William de Friskeneye (Friskney) of Wainfleet. de Friskeneye (Friskney) William King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/302

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Reference
SC 8/7/302
Date
[1321-1322]
Description
Petitioners
William de Friskeneye (Friskney) of Wainfleet.
Name(s)
de Friskeneye (Friskney), William
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
William de Friskeneye states that as he was travelling to York with a ship called the Blythe, loaded with wheat to feed the king's men, on the Tuesday before the feast of St George last, John de Bishopthorpe, William de Willingham, Hugh de Carlton and John de Woodhall, took twenty quarters of wheat, worth twenty-one marks, from him in Wainfleet harbour - without ever giving him any payment or tally for this. He requests either payment, or corn in exchange, as he has only his merchandise to live off.
Nature of endorsement
He is to sue by writ of trespass.
Places mentioned
Waynflet (Wainfleet), Lincolnshire
Everwyk (York).
People mentioned
John de Bisshopesthorp (Bishopthorpe)
William de Wylingham (Willington)
Hugh de Carleton (Carlton)
John de Wodhalle (Woodhall).
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).
Related material

For a related petitions, see SC 8/331/15641

For another petition by the same petitioner on a different matter, see SC 8/326/E716

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3536
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.408b, no. 126 (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. 126 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060424/

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