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John de Abyndon (Abingdon). de Abyndon (Abingdon) John King and council. John de...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/31/1525

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Reference
SC 8/31/1525
Date
[c. 1314]
Description
Petitioners
John de Abyndon (Abingdon).
Name(s)
de Abyndon (Abingdon), John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
John de Abyndon states that he recovered 1600 marks by a judgment on a writ of conspiracy before Roger Brabancon and his companions, against Robert de Armenters and Stephen his brother, and a writ was sent to the Sheriffs of London to imprison them, they afterwards released them, by an agreement between them and Edmund Maulay. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
Roger Brabancon and his companions etc., are to be ordered by writ that, when they have summoned the aforesaid John, Robert and Hugh before them, and heard their arguments, they are to do justice on the contents of the petition.
Places mentioned
Newgate prison, [London].
People mentioned
Roger Brabancon (Brabazon)
Robert de Armenters (Darmenters)
Stephen [de Armenters (Darmenters)]
Hugh de Gerton, Sheriff of London
Robert Burdeyn, Sheriff of London
Edmund Maulay (Mauley).
Note
CCR 1313-18 p.43 is dated at Westminster, 13 March 1314, and according to the List of Sheriffs, Hugh de Gerton and Robert Burdeyn were sheriffs between Michaelmas 1313 and Michaelmas 1314. SC 8/2/88, which requests a pardon for Robert de Armenters, for a trespass against John de Abyndon, on account of his service at Bannockburn, must be later.
Related material

For a related petition from Robert de Armenters is SC 8/2/88

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 263
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.43 (Order to release Robert de Armenters from Newgate prison and to deliver him to Edmund de Maulay, who has mainperned to have him before the king three weeks after Easter to satisfy the king for his ransom for certain conspiracies and trespasses against John de Abyndon)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.320b (no.145) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
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