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Richard Giffoun, clerk to the Archbishop of York. Giffoun Richard The king clerk...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/48/2391

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Reference
SC 8/48/2391
Date
[c. 1322]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Giffoun, clerk to the Archbishop of York.
Name(s)
Giffoun, Richard
Addressees
The king
Occupation
clerk to the Archbishop of York
Nature of request
The petitioner seeks payment from those who broke into his grange without deed or warrant from the king (who was at Pontefract) or from any of his ministers and took eighteen thraves of wheat, five bushels of peas, hay, thirteen quarters of oats, and eighty bushels of barley. They also took an iron cooking pot, covers for a feather bed, five feather pillows, two iron axes, a greave of iron, and other things. And when the petitioner approached them to recover his costs they refused to pay.
Nature of endorsement
The petitioner is to have a writ of trespass.
Places mentioned
York
Berewyk en Elmete (Barwick-in-Elmet), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Ponfreint (Pontefract), [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Nicholas de Grey
John de Hardeshull
Gilbert de Haumle, purveyor and farrier of horses for Nicholas de Grey
Clement, servant of Nicholas de Grey
Hugh, servant of Nicholas de Grey
John, servant of Nicholas de Grey
Richard, servant of Nicholas de Grey
Thomas Isherman, purveyor for John de Hardeshull
William [de Hardeshull], brother of John de Hardeshull
Thomas Hastyn
Adam Scot
Walter le Hontman
Wakot
Adam
Elys
Richard le Sumpter
Alexander, associate of Richard
Jake de Ilkeston, purveyor and farrier of horses for John de Hardeshull.
Note
Dated c. 1322 on the basis that Grey and Hardreshull were working together on royal commissions at this time (CPR 1321-4, p. 79); the dating is not secure.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3629
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062603/

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