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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1045

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Reference
SC 8/21/1045
Date
[1391]
Description
Petitioners
Walter Sibile.
Name(s)
Sibile, Walter
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
Walter Sibile states that Thomas Mortymere, who was appointed in the last parliament as arbiter in the long dispute between the petitioner and William Coggeshale and Nicholas Twyford, and who was supposed to have given his decision before last Michaelmas, has not done so, and requests that Richard Lescrop, who was the parties' original choice of arbiter, might question Thomas Mortymere, and might then act as arbiter in his place.
Nature of endorsement
When this petition had been read in parliament, it was ordained by the lords, with the assent of William Coggeshale and Walter Sibile, present in parliament, that they would be under the arbitration of the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Ely, and Richard Lescrop, two or one of them, on the matter mentioned by this petition, and that they would be bound by this; and William and Walter submitted in parliament to the aforesaid arbitration and decision, in the aforesaid form.
People mentioned
William Coggeshale
Nicholas Twyford, knight
Thomas Mortymere (Mortimer)
Richard Lescrop (Scrope).
Note
The response to this petition is mentioned by SC 8/21/1044 as a decision made in the parliament held at Westminster in November 1391; so this petition must be from this parliament.
Related material

For a later petition from the same petitioner on the same subject is SC 8/21/1044

A related schedule is SC 8/143/7130B

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

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7513
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.298b (no.5) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061208/

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