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Alice Pikot (Pycot) of Heydon. Pikot (Pycot) Alice King and council. Alice Pikot...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/67/3326

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Reference
SC 8/67/3326
Date
[1319]
Description
Petitioners
Alice Pikot (Pycot) of Heydon.
Name(s)
Pikot (Pycot), Alice
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Alice Pikot of Heydon states that she had empleaded Richard de Katesbiri by a writ of novel disseisin concerning tenements in Thorley near Bishop's Stortford, but that she came to an agreement with him that she would give him a quitclaim and her charter of feoffment for the tenements, in exchange for £100; but that Robert de Rudham, whom she had employed on this matter, deceived her in collusion with Richard, receiving the recognisance for the £100 in his own name, and levying much of it for himself. She requests a writ to William de Berford and his companions, before whom the recognisance was made, to hear and determine this recognisance, and the deception practised on her, so that she can have her recovery.
Nature of endorsement
She is to have a writ of conspiracy against the aforesaid Richard and Robert, formulated for her case, containing the whole statement of the matter etc.
Places mentioned
Heydon, [Essex]
Thorley, Hertfordshire
Storteforde (Bishop's Stortford), Hertfordshire
St Albans, [Hertfordshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard de Katesbiri
Robert de Rudham, chaplain
William de Berford (Bereford), justice of the Bench.
Note
A Latin summary of this petition is found on a roll from the parliament of May 1319 (Docs. Illus. English History pp.50-51). The recognizance in favour of Robert was made at the octave of Michaelmas, 11 Edward II (1317).
Related material

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/67/3307

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6428
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), pp.50-51 (edition of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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