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William Skele of Kent. Skele William King and lords and commons of parliament. William...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/20/959

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This record is about the William Skele of Kent. Skele William King and lords and commons of parliament. William... dating from [? 1381 -? 1382] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/20/959
Date
[? 1381 -? 1382]
Description
Petitioners
William Skele of Kent.
Name(s)
Skele, William
Addressees
King and lords and commons of parliament.
Nature of request
William Skele states that he purchased from John Syngwell and Alice his wife, formerly the wife of William Morant, certain lands and tenements in the town of Sevenoaks, which Alice held in fee of the gift and feoffment of Richard Brewer, Thomas Edward and Andrew Crawhurst of Sevenoaks, who had them of the gift and feoffment of William Morant. When the petitioner had held these lands and tenements for a year, one James de Pekham expelled him from them with force and arms, against law and reason, and has kept him out ever since. He has sued at common law for about three years, ruining himself, but James is so strong and so feared in the country that he has never been able to have justice. He requests a remedy, that he might not be undone forever, or that the parties be called and ordered to show their evidence, and judgment given as reason demands.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Sevenoaks, [Kent].
People mentioned
John Syngwell (Syngwelle)
Alice [Syngwell] (Syngwelle)
William Morant
Richard Brewer
Thomas Edward
Andrew Crawhurst
James de Pekham (Peckham).
Note
Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.128b (no. 7) assigns this petition to 5 Richard II (22 June 1381 - 21 June 1382). It states that it was presented in parliament: in that year there were parliaments in November 1381 and May 1382.
Related material

A duplicate petition is SC 8/20/958

For transcript, see no.69 of PRO 31/7/108

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7496
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.130a-b (no. 15) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061114/

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