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John de Seint Johan (St John), keeper of the castle and honour of Cockermouth. de...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/80/3976

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Reference
SC 8/80/3976
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
John de Seint Johan (St John), keeper of the castle and honour of Cockermouth.
Name(s)
de Seint Johan (St John), John
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
keeper of the castle and honour of Cockermouth
Nature of request
Seint Johan requests that his bailiff and gaoler be pardoned for the escape of Fot who they had received into their custody as they raised the hue and cry and caught and beheaded Fot. He requests this so that they are not challenged for the escape in any future eyre.
Nature of endorsement
If it is thus then the king grants that they should not be prosecuted in any eyre.
Places mentioned
Cockermouth, [Cumberland].
People mentioned
Adam de Kereseye, bailiff of the petitioner
John Burgham, gaoler of Cockermouth castle
Simon Fot.
Note
Fraser dates the petition to 1302 noting that the response to the petition was approved by council in parliament in 1302. However, her evidence for this is not detailed (Northern Petitions::pp.124-5 (no.90)). St John was certainly dead by 1 November 1302 when his executors were granted that they could continue to receive the issues from several estates in which he presumably had had a life interest until Martinmas of that year (CPR 1301-7, p.69), so the petition cannot be later than that, and the eventual pardon to Keresey and the others, though actually issued on 13 July 1305, refers back to the request of St John 'when he was alive'.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7811
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.373 (pardon to the heirs of St John, Kereseye and Burgham)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.124-5 (no.90) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107752/

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