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Richard de Scarle. de Scarle Richard King. Scarle requests remedy and that he is...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/71/3518

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SC 8/71/3518
Date
[c. 1314]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Scarle.
Name(s)
de Scarle, Richard
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Scarle requests remedy and that he is able to have deliverance of his chattels since they have been distrained wrongfully and by collusion without any manner of law and reason. Arrears of the farm are demanded of the city, and was due from Leicester. He came before an assembly of the commonalty and alledged that Oxenford and Scarle owed money to him and that the arrears of the farm should be levied from this. Scarle owed this money to Leicester's father who pardoned him it, and he has not appeared before the mayor and bailiffs as he has been arrained without writ or other warrant and he is wrongfully distrained.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
John de Leycestre (Leicester), Bailiff of Lincoln
Commonalty of Lincoln
Robert de Oxenford (Oxeneford) of Lincoln
Gilbert de Leycestre (Leicester), father of John de Leicester.
Note
The petition can be dated to c. 1314 as the petition makes mention of 8 Edward II.
Related material

For the petition by Robert de Oxeneford see SC 8/71/3519

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7373
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107292/

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