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Robert de Thresk (Thirsk), clerk. de Thresk (Thirsk) Robert King and council. clerk...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/618

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Reference
SC 8/13/618
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Thresk (Thirsk), clerk.
Name(s)
de Thresk (Thirsk), Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
clerk
Nature of request
Thresk states that he has been outlawed by his harassers while he was outside the kingdom by which writs were sent to the sheriffs to enquire of the benefices that he held in those counties. He requests that he have a writ to the sheriffs to surcease the execution of those writs, and they not meddle in the spiritual goods against the franchise of Holy Church.
Nature of endorsement
He is to declare more plainly the matter of his petition, and then sue in Chancery where justice will be done to him.
Places mentioned
Yorkshire
Wiltshire.
People mentioned
Sheriff of York
Sheriff of Wiltshire.
Note
This is dated to 1348 by the details given in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.175; see also PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 36. Thresk was pardoned in July 1348 (CPR 1348-50, p.136).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7950
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.136 (pardon to Robert de Thresk)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.183a (no.33) (full edition of a later copy 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), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 36 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060757/

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