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John de Ereswell (Eriswell). de Ereswell (Eriswell) John King and council John de...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/45/2206

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Reference
SC 8/45/2206
Date
[1318]
Description
Petitioners
John de Ereswell (Eriswell).
Name(s)
de Ereswell (Eriswell), John
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
John de Ereswell states that he was taken and imprisoned by John, Prior of Ely and William le Boteler, and held in prison for two and a half years, and that twelve writs were sued to the Sheriff and Coroners of Cambridgeshire to replevy him, returned that he was no longer in their bailiwick, having been removed from it by the Prior. The king issued a writ to attach the Prior, which was sued for two years, until the quinzaine of Easter in the sixth year of the present king's reign, when it was extinguished. John de Ereswell, who is ready to sue for the king, asks that the record and process might be brought before the council so that the suit can be revived.
Nature of endorsement
Because the plea is extinguished, as he claims in the petition, he is to sue another writ if he wishes.
Places mentioned
Ely, [Cambridgeshire]
Cambridgeshire
People mentioned
John [de Fresingfeld], Prior of Ely
William le Boteler (Butler)
Note
The Latin summary of this petition is enrolled on the roll of the October parliament of 12 Edward II (1318) (Docs. Illus. English History p.37).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/159/7925

An earlier related petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/45/2228

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3008
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.37 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062416/

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