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William Leygrave (Legrave) of Bristol. Leygrave (Legrave) William King and lords...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1048

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Reference
SC 8/21/1048
Date
[1394]
Description
Petitioners
William Leygrave (Legrave) of Bristol.
Name(s)
Leygrave (Legrave), William
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
William Leygrave states that in the fourteenth year of the king's reign he recovered a messuage and six shops in Bristol by an assize of fresh force against John Carleton and Maud his wife, and Hugh Carleton and Edith his wife; but that in the fifteenth year, John and Maud sued a writ of error, overturning this judgment; which writ and process contain errors. He requests that the king and lords order the justices to appear before them, with the record of the assize of fresh force and all the circumstances and causes of its annulment, to hear the errors in the annulment, to redress them, and to make restitution and do justice to the supplicant.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Bristuyt (Bristol), [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
Ellis Spelly, Mayor of Bristol
Robert Dudbroke (Dudbrook), Bailiff of Bristol
John Selewode (Selwood), Bailiff of Bristol
John Carleton
Maud [Carleton]
Hugh Carleton
Edith [Carleton]
Thomas Knap, Mayor of Bristol
John Bourton, Bailiff of Bristol
Richard Hanceford, Bailiff of Bristol.
Note
Enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster at the Quinzaine of St Hilary, 17 Richard II (1394) (Rot. Parl. vol. III, pp.314b-315a).
Related material

For a related petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/21/1047

Another petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/58/2853

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5062
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), pp.314b-315a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061211/

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