Robert de Clifford, brother and heir of Roger de Clifford. de Clifford Robert King...

Petitioners

Robert de Clifford, brother and heir of Roger de Clifford.

Name(s)

de Clifford, Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Clifford shows that the king by the common asset of parliament granted the keeping of all the castles, manors, lands and tenements which were of Clifford's inheritance to him to hold until he was of full age upon finding mainprise in Chancery. However a new commission has given the keeping of the manor of Skipton to Percy though it is part of Clifford's inheritance against the form of the first grant. Clifford requests that the king have regard for the shameful death suffered by his brother, and that the grant should remain in force, and that the commission made to Percy be revoked in as much as Clifford has found mainprise for the entry of his inheritance.

Nature of endorsement

The king demands of the chancellor if he made a commission of a more recent date, and the reason why.

Places mentioned

Skipton in Craven, West Riding of Yorkshire.

People mentioned

Roger de Clifford, brother of the petitioner

Henry de Percy.

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/82/4077

For another petition possibly from the same petitioner, see SC 8/279/13909

For another petition from the same petitioner and the earl of Warwick, see SC 8/149/7437

For a related petition, see SC 8/201/10029

• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.7 (grant to Percy of the keeping of the castle and manor of Skipton during pleasure)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.91a (no.3) (full edition of original petition)