Thomas Bekeryng (Beckering). Bekeryng (Beckering) Thomas King and council. Bekeryng...

Petitioners

Thomas Bekeryng (Beckering).

Name(s)

Bekeryng (Beckering), Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Bekeryng shows that he was pardoned the payment of a fine of 400 marks by the king before Calais by the request of the earl of Lancaster on condition that he pay £100 at certain terms at the king's Chamber. He missed the first payment, and although he paid it at the second term the Exchequer ordered that he and his mainpernors be distrained for the 400 marks, and Bekering be arrested and placed in the Fleet prison where he is detained. He requests that notwithstanding the default of payment at the first term that the king order that he enjoy the benefit of the pardon, and that he pay at the chamber the remainder of the £100, that he be delivered from prison, his lands and tenements be restored to him, and his mainpernors be discharged from their mainprise.

Nature of endorsement

It seems to the council that Beckeryng pay the £40 which are in arrears, and that he be discharged from the 400 marks that he was pardoned without condition.

Places mentioned

Calais, [France]

Fleet prison, [London].

People mentioned

[Henry of Grosmont], Earl of Lancaster.

For a copy of a writ which was attached to this petition see SC 8/13/647B

For another petition possibly by the same petitioner and others, see SC 8/97/4804

For another petition possibly by the same petitioner, see SC 8/97/4802A

For copies of letters patent which was attached to this petition see SC 8/13/647C

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.196a (no.84) (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. 86 (summary of petition and references)