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Robert Fitz Robert, squire, formerly Sub-escheator in Worcestershire. Fitz Robert...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/87/4331

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Reference
SC 8/87/4331
Date
[? 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Fitz Robert, squire, formerly Sub-escheator in Worcestershire.
Name(s)
Fitz Robert, Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Sub-escheator in Worcestershire
Nature of request
Robert Fitz Robert states that when he was Sub-escheator in Worcestershire, by commission of Richard de Rodeneye, on the Friday before the Nativity of Our Lady last, when he was passing through the vill of Alcester with certain sums of money pertaining to his office, he was attacked and robbed by certain malefactors. He requests a commission to William de Herle, Richard de Rodeneye and John de Hampton, or two of them, to inquire into this trespass and to hear and determine it.
Nature of endorsement
It is to be done with the justices named in the petition.
Places mentioned
Worcestershire
Alcester, Warwickshire.
People mentioned
Richard de Rodeneye (Rodeney), [Escheator South of the Trent]
John de Popehull of Alcester
John [de Popehull], son of John de Popehull
William [de Popehull], son of John de Popehull
John [de Popehull], son of John de Popehull
Richard Sprinke
John de Kingeleye
William de Herle
John de Hampton.
Note
Datable to 1320-1321, with reference to Richard de Rodeneye, Escheator South of the Trent between 22 February 1320 and 14 November 1321. A note at the start of this file, dated 3 May 1932, states that 'The petitions in this file are copied in R. C. Transcripts I. 156, and appear to form part of an original file of petitions to the parliament of Michaelmas 1320. Cf. Parl. Proc. (Chancery) 5/4'. C 49/5/4 is merely a label, 'The petitions of William de Herlaston from the King's parliament held at Westminster at the octave of Michaelmas in his fourteenth year, which were answered by the auditors of petitions, delivered into Chancery to be expedited': nevertheless, this petition is tentatively dated to 1320, as many of those in the file that can be dated seem to come from that year.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7428
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148873/

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