Godfrey de Stainton. de Stainton Godfrey King. Stainton requests that it is granted...

Petitioners

Godfrey de Stainton.

Name(s)

de Stainton, Godfrey

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Stainton requests that it is granted to him that he is only liable for his portion of the goods and chattels, and he prays grace of this that he is not ruined forever. He was indicted before the justices by false conspiracy of taking the goods and chattels of rebels. He made answer but he and others were attainted by the false oaths of Botiller and Burton.1)

Nature of endorsement

The prior and Stainton should come before the king.2) Coram rege.

Places mentioned

Pontefract, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Wakefield, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Barnsley, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Ravensdale, [Derbyshire].

People mentioned

William de Herle, Justice

Geoffrey le Scrop (Scrope), Justice

Edmund le Botiler (Botiller), steward of the Earl of Lancaster in Pontefract

John de Burton, Steward of the Earl of Lancaster in Wakefield

Prior of Bretton

John Bulloc (Bullock) of Barnsley

Richard de Bosevile

John de Dodworthe (Dodworth).

For a calendar of this petition for consideration by the council see C 49/5/12

For a related and probably contemporary petition see SC 8/72/3575

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.127 (acknowledgement by the prior of Monk Bretton that he owes Stainton and one Wiliam Scot £1,000)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.41 (acquittance to the Stainton and others of the residue of the sum owed)