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Robert de Kyngesbury (Kingsbury). de Kyngesbury (Kingsbury) Robert King. Kyngesbury...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/83/4129

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Reference
SC 8/83/4129
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Kyngesbury (Kingsbury).
Name(s)
de Kyngesbury (Kingsbury), Robert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Kyngesbury requests that he be paid the money owed to him for goods of his taken from his servant by Lacatour and Pestour for the use of the earl of Chester. He has sued to be paid but is now impoverished.1)
Nature of endorsement
He should go to the treasurer and the council of the earl and they are to do right to him.2) Coram rege.
People mentioned
Henry Lacatour
Dawe le Pestour
John Cole, servant of the petitioner.
Note
The petition dates to 1320 as a full transcription of the petition was enrolled on the parliament roll dated in the heading given in Rot. Parl., vol. I, p.365 to the Michaelmas parliament held at Westminster in 14 Edw. II (1320).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4709
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.378b (no.68) (full transcription of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148671/

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