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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Gervays of Wycombe. Gervays Thomas King and council. Gervays shows that he...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/626
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/13/626
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Gervays of Wycombe.
- Name(s)
- Gervays, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Gervays shows that he had a sarpler of wool kept in a house that Antony Citron rented. This was taken by Kere, Fulham and Reynham supposing it to be Citron's, though it was not, and he was not subject to the tax. Gervays has petitioned and sued before many people, and proved that the sarpler is his, but it is still detained from him, and he has been threatened with death if he continues his suit. By no suit has he been able to recover his chattel or remedy, so that he requests remedy, and that the recorder, several former mayors and other alderman be summoned before the council who know the truth of the business.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the mayor of London, that if the plaintiff sue his process and the taking of the inquest that the mayor should aid and defend him on the suit of his process, so that he is able freely to sue his process, so that it is not necessary for the king to provide a remedy.
- Places mentioned
- Wycombe, [Berkshire]
- London
- Queenhithe, London.
- People mentioned
- Antony Citron
- William Kere, sub-taxer of the fifteenth
- William de Fulham, sub-taxer of the fifteenth
- Walter de Reynham, sub taxer of the fifteenth
- John de Gloucestre (Gloucester), Sheriff of London
- Walter de Mordon, chief taxer of the fifteenth
- Richard de Keselyngbury, chief taxer of the fifteenth
- Alan de Asch (Ash), baron of the Exchequer
- Henry Darcy, mayor of London
- John Hamond, mayor of London
- John Gubbe, mayor of London
- Richard de Lacer, mayor of London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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. 49. The petition also records that the sarpler was taken in the middle of Lent 1346, so that the petition is probably correctly dated.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 3582
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.186a-b (no.46) (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. 49 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060765/
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