Walter Sibile. Sibile Walter King and lords in parliament. Walter Sibile states that...

Petitioners

Walter Sibile.

Name(s)

Sibile, Walter

Addressees

King and lords in parliament.

Nature of request

Walter Sibile states that a lawsuit between him and his tenants of Landwade and William Coggeshale and Nicholas Twyford and their tenants of Exning, which has been pending in parliament from the ninth year of the present king's reign to the fifteenth, and which has ruined him, was finally in the fifteenth year, after the death of Nicholas, put to the arbitration of the Bishop of London, Bishop of Ely and Richard Lescrop. This arbitration has not yet taken place, and Walter requests writs to William Coggeshale's general attorneys, to appear before the arbiters, and that the arbiters proceed to arbitration as quickly as possible.

Nature of endorsement

It is agreed and assented in parliament that writs should be sent to William Coggeshale's general attorneys, to appear before the arbiters mentioned in the petition, on the days and at the places to be assigned to them by the arbiters, and also that writs should be sent to the said arbiters to proceed to their arbitration and decision as swiftly as they reasonably can.

Places mentioned

Landwade, [Cambridgeshire]

Exning, [Suffolk].

People mentioned

William Coggeshale, knight

Nicholas Twyford, knight

[Robert Braybrooke], Bishop of London

[John Fordham] Bishop of Ely

Richard Lescrop (Scrope).

A related schedule is SC 8/143/7130B

An earlier petition from the same petitioner on the same subject is SC 8/21/1045

For a related petition from Nicholas Twyford is SC 8/143/7130A

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), p.212 (instructions to William Coggeshale's attorneys to appear before the arbiters)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.298b (no.5) (full edition of earlier related petition)