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Petitioners

Walter de Meryet (Meriet), clerk.

Name(s)

de Meryet (Meriet), Walter

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

Meryet has had damages awarded him in a suit with Camoys, but despite being imprisoned Camoys refuses to make a fine to the king or satisfaction to Meryet. Camoys has sued twice concerning errors in the judgment, but judgment has been affirmed. In the meantime Camoys has enfeoffed other men with his lands. Meryet requests that the judgment is affirmed, and that the sheriff of Somerset be ordered to take all Camoys' lands that he had at a time of the writ of attaint made against him into the king's hand regardless of in whose hand they have now come.

Nature of endorsement

Let it be ordered by a writ under the great seal to the justices assigned to hold the pleas of the king that they make to safely keep Camoys in prison so that he is not at large, and they should charge the Marshal to safely keep him. And concerning the writ of which the petition makes mention the council is advised that the affirmation of the judgement ought not to be redressed by law except in parliament, and there let the errors be assigned and adjudged and a redress be ordered and if there be an error by which the writ is thus against the law, and for this let it be ordered to the justices of the Bench of the king to do right to the party according to the affirmation of judgement notwithstanding the writ. And concerning the charge to the lands that the party has alienated pending the attaint let right be done to him according to the law of the land.

Places mentioned

Bradford on Tone, Somerset

Kent.

People mentioned

Ralph [de Camoys]

Geoffrey le Scrop (Scrope), justice

Frank de Scolond

William de Graunson.

For a related petition see SC 8/127/6319

For the copy of the writ formerly appended to this petition see SC 8/61/3011B