John Salman of Great Livermere, clerk. Salman John King, lords and commons in parliament....

Petitioners

John Salman of Great Livermere, clerk.

Name(s)

Salman, John

Addressees

King, lords and commons in parliament.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

Salman requests that the matter of the pleas of debt made against him by Drury and the Alfreds whereby he was found to have made bonds to them, despite his denial, and for which he is imprisoned until payment of the debt and damages were made, be considered since he is not able to have remedy at the common law, and he requests that the bailiffs of Bury before whom the plea was heard and the jury summoned before them be brought before the king to answer Salman concerning the deceit and the truth of the charge, or commit the matter to the chancellor to summon them and give remedy to the petitioner and amend the record of the plea and make redress as law and reason demand.

Nature of endorsement

Let this petition be ordered into Chancery, the chancellor having power by the authority of parliament to summon before him on a certain day the parties named in the petition, and the others who are to be called, and call the justices of the Bench to hear the matters comprised in the petition and the reasons, and the complainant in the petition is to have a writ of supersedeas directed to the justices of King's Bench to surcease in the matter comprised in the petition by the authority of parliament.

Places mentioned

Great Livermere, [Suffolk]

Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk].

People mentioned

Roger Drury, knight

Richard Alfred

Laurence Trussebut, bailiff of Bury

Robert Somerton, bailiff of Bury

John Alfred.

For a petition formerly attached to this one see SC 8/52/2571

For a petition formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/117/5822

For a near-duplicate of this petition see SC 8/198/9879