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John le Bolt of Reading. Bolt John King and council. Bolt shows that Ispania ousted...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/527

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Reference
SC 8/11/527
Date
[? 1327]
Description
Petitioners
John le Bolt of Reading.
Name(s)
Bolt, John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Bolt shows that Ispania ousted him from certain lands to the damage of £20 which he was able to do by a charter of Edward II which gave him the lands once of Mountrynel and Preston which were forfeit to the crown, and which Ispania claimed that Bolt's lands were included in the grant. He requests remedy because the charter has prevented him ever since from getting an assize or an inquest held concerning his disturbance and the recognition of the king's court.
Nature of endorsement
He is to sue at the common law.
Places mentioned
Reading, [Berkshire].
People mentioned
Giles de Espaigne (Ispania), serjeant of the mace of King Edward of Caenarfon
Edward II [King of England] William de Mountrynel
Robert de Prestone (Preston).
Note
The petition is dated to 1333 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.70, though this is from a post-medieval transcript, so the exact date is unclear. The guard makes it somewhat earlier dating it to 1327, and this might well link in with the guard reference to SC 8/33/1613.
Related material

For another petition that may be part of a series of contemporary Berkshire petitions see SC 8/33/1613

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 412
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.34 (grant to Ispania)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.71b (no.5) (full edition of a later copy of the 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 70-2, no. 5 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060654/

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