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Thomas le Marchal (Marshal); Hugh le Marchal (Marshal); Ralph le Vineter; The other...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2980

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Reference
SC 8/60/2980
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas le Marchal (Marshal); Hugh le Marchal (Marshal); Ralph le Vineter; The other tenants of the king's palace of Westminster.
Name(s)
Marchal (Marshal); Marchal (Marshal); Vineter, Thomas; Hugh; Ralph
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioners request remedy and that they be sustained in their estate that they have been before this time, and that the palace ought to be free of this duress. The petitioners hold in chief of the palace of the king as do their ancestors and have no other bailiff except the bailiff of the palace. During the fair of Westminster the abbot's bailiffs amerce them in their court and will not allow them to sell without making a ransom to them at their will to the great damage of the tenants.
Nature of endorsement
Anyone who feels they have a grievance should seek justice by a writ of Chancery against the abbot and anyone else in accordance with his case.
Places mentioned
Westminster.
People mentioned
Bailiff of the palace of Westminster
Abbot of Westminster
Bailiffs of the abbot of Westminster.
Note
Dated from the dating of the transcripts by Ryley taken from a parliament roll that is no longer extant, but can be dated to 1302.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5645
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.155a (no.7) (full edition of later copy of petition on parliament roll)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.3 & roll 25, appendix, no.9 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063201/

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