William de Leygrave, furbisher. de Leygrave William King. furbisher The petitioner...

Petitioners

William de Leygrave, furbisher.

Name(s)

de Leygrave, William

Addressees

King.

Occupation

furbisher

Nature of request

The petitioner asks for a settlement from Geoffrey Martin concerning a dispute between them. He shows that Martin and Seymour conspired together [in] a false statute merchant on the petitioner of £300 to themselves, for them to have in damages the rights to various tenements in Bristol, of which statute the petitioner was unaware. Nor did he attach his seal. He had no knowledge of the matter until he was taken and imprisoned in danger of his life and forced to make a release of his rights. He was arraigned concerning the false statute before Bradstone and his associate justices (as confirmed and recorded in the rolls that Notton keeps), of which trespass the petitioner was fined to the king and settled to him (i.e. by final agreement), but Geoffrey Martin has not made any settlement to the petitioner.

Nature of endorsement

Let the dispute be heard before the king upon the details of this petition.

Places mentioned

Bristol.

People mentioned

Geoffrey Martin, Common Clerk

John Seymour, Clerk of the Statute Merchant of Bristol

Thomas Bradstone

William de Notton.

Another petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/21/1047