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John Gerard, son and heir of John Gerard of Lambeth. Gerard; Gerard John; John King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/48/2382

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Reference
SC 8/48/2382
Date
[c. 1402]
Description
Petitioners
John Gerard, son and heir of John Gerard of Lambeth.
Name(s)
Gerard; Gerard, John; John
Addressees
King
Nature of request
The petitioner requests that he be granted livery of certain lands, tenements, shops, solars, buildings in the parish of St Martin in the city of London as cousin and next heir of Nicholas Spenser. In year two of the king's reign a writ of diem clausit extremum was issued upon the death of Spenser on the Nativity of Our Lady and held in the presence of the mayor of the city, which found that on the day of his death Spenser held the said properties of the king and that the petitioner (aged forty-two years) was his next heir. But the father of the petitioner, John Gerard of Lambeth, had been convicted of a felony in the time of Edward [III], for which reason the petitioner was ousted and denied livery of his inheritance etc., which ousting has been annulled through a writ of right before the justices of king's bench.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] The king wishes that his council decide this matter. The county of Somerset.
Places mentioned
Lambeth, [Surrey]
London
le Welhous, [unidentified], [London]
Bowyerowe (Bowyer Row), [London]
St Martin Ludgate parish, [London]
Somerset
People mentioned
[Adam] Fraunceys, lately Mayor and Escheator of the City of London
Nicholas Spenser, Citizen of London (cousin of the petitioner)
Gerard [Gerard], son of Nicholas Gerard
Robert Horner, father of Thomas [Horner]
Thomas, father of Maud [Spenser]
Maud [Spenser], mother of Nicholas Spenser
John Gerard of Lambeth.
Note
Firmly dated by reference to CPR 1401-5, p. 102.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3597
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.102 (writ ordering the delivery of rents on the basis of the petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062594/

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