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Robert de Layborne (Leyburn), knight. de Layborne (Leyburn) Robert King and lords...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1108
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/23/1108
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1406]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Layborne (Leyburn), knight.
- Name(s)
- de Layborne (Leyburn), Robert
- Addressees
- King and lords in parliament.
- Nature of request
- Robert de Layborne complains that, at the instigation of Thomas Warcop, sheriff of Westmorland, Roland de Thornburgh abducted Margaret, one of the daughters and heirs of Robert de Sandford, and heir apparent of the petitioner's wife, from his wardship in Westmorland, and they hold her, a nine-year-old girl, by force, and have married her to the sheriff's son Thomas. The supplicant is prevented by threats, and by the great power of the sheriff and his kin and supporters, from having a remedy for this. He requests that the malefactors be summoned by writ before the king and lords in parliament, bringing Margaret with them, and that the king give him a remedy. And if there is not enough time in this parliament, then that the council or justices might have power to do this.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because the plaintiff has offered to submit to the arbitration of two sufficient people on his side, if his opponent will submit to the arbitration of a similar two people on his side, and if the four persons to be chosen cannot come to an agreement, the parties will submit to the judgment of William Gascoigne, the king's Chief Justice, it is agreed by the king and lords that a copy of this petition is to be enclosed in a writ and sent to Roland de Thornburgh and the others mentioned in the petition, so that if they wish to accept the petitioner's offer, they can come to an agreement among themselves, without any other suit. And if they cannot come to an agreement, then both parties, with Margaret, the daughter of the petitioner's wife, are to appear before the king's council at the octave of St John next, on pain of £300, and the council is to have power by authority of parliament to hear the parties and to do justice to them on this matter.
- Places mentioned
- Westmorland
- Lambertsete (Lambert Ash), [Westmorland].
- People mentioned
- Margaret [de Sandford]
- Robert de Sandford, father of Margaret de Sandford
- Margaret [de Layborne (Leyburn)], wife of the petitioner
- Roland de Thornburgh (Thornbagh)
- William de Thornburgh (Thornbagh), father of Roland de Thornburgh
- Thomas Warcop of Lambert Ash, sheriff of Westmorland
- Thomas Warcop, son of Thomas Warcop
- William Gascoigne, Chief Justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '? 1406 cf. rest of batch', with reference also to the List of Sheriffs and William Gascoigne, saying that he was no longer Chief Justice when Warcop was Sheriff for the second time.Thomas Warcop of Lambert's Ash was sheriff between November 1403 and October/November 1406, and again (unless this is the son?) between September/October 1417 and October 1418 - although, as the note says, Gascoigne was no longer Chief Justice then. William Thornbagh, presumably the William de Thornburgh mentioned in the petition, succeeded him on the first occasion, being sheriff between October/November 1406 and October/November 1408.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 5049
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.564b-565a (no.8) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061275/
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