Hugh de Snyterby (Snitterby) of the Soke of Kirton. de Snyterby (Snitterby) Hugh...

Petitioners

Hugh de Snyterby (Snitterby) of the Soke of Kirton.

Name(s)

de Snyterby (Snitterby), Hugh

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Hugh de Snyterby states that because one John Basket, miller of Melton, came to Winterton with other men and beat and severely wounded one John Fitz William and others there, he, as the King's bailiff and constable of Winterton, sued and had John Basket convicted of this trespass, but that John, hating him for this, attacked and badly wounded him. He requests an oyer et terminer.

Nature of endorsement

Lambert de Thrikyngham, Walter de Freskeney and Robert de Malberthorp, or two of them, are to be appointed as justices to hear and determine the aforesaid trespass, because of the enormity of the deed and the poverty of the person, and because he was a minister of the King.

Places mentioned

Kirton [in Lindsey], Lincolnshire

Melton (Melton Ross), [Lincolnshire]

Winterton, [Lincolnshire].

People mentioned

John Basket, miller of Melton, [alias John de Melton]

John Fitz William

Lambert de Thrikyngham (Threekingham), Walter de Freskeney (Friskney) and Robert de Malberthorp (Mablethorpe).

For a petition from the same petitioner to the Queen on this matter, see SC 8/87/4327

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/87/4325

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.541 (commission of oyer et terminer on the petitioner's complaint, to the justices named in the endorsement to SC 8/87/4327)
• Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.752 (reference to petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.380b (no.87) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)