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William le Olde. Olde William King and council Olde requests remedy for the long...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/63/3134

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Reference
SC 8/63/3134
Date
[c. 1325]
Description
Petitioners
William le Olde.
Name(s)
Olde, William
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Olde requests remedy for the long time that he has resided in prison for default of sessions of the justices to deliver him, and he is ready to find sufficient mainprise to be at the law to answer on the trespass. He was sued by Cusance concerning trespasses made against the duke when he was earl of Chester in the Isle of Wight, and he put himself on the county. He was imprisoned when the justices did not come on the day assigned to him, and the sheriff won't release him without an order of the king.
Nature of endorsement
Let a writ be ordered to the justices that they certify in Chancery why he was ordered to prison, and afterwards let justice be done.
Places mentioned
Isle of Wight, [Hampshire].
People mentioned
William de Cusance, Treasurer of the Duke of Aquitaine
Ellis de Godele (Godley)
Robert de Tangele (Tangley), clerk
Edward of Windsor, Duke of Aquitaine, Earl of Chester.
Note
The petition must date to c. 1325 as it is clearly a petition of Edward II's reign at a time when Edward of Windsor was duke of Aquitaine. Edward of Windsor was created duke on 10 September 1325. This obviously leaves a little over a year for this petition to have been submitted before the fall of Edward II's regime. It is not clear whether the entry in the patent rolls refers to the same matter, but this also dates to 1325 but before the investiture as duke (CPR 1324-7, p.225).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6286
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.225 (commission of oyer and terminer concerning the persons who felled the earl's trees on his estates in the Isle of Wight)
  • Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.751 (discussion of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106897/

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