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Steven le Bole of London. Bole Steven King and council. Bole requests remedy as Baldwin...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/91/4501

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Reference
SC 8/91/4501
Date
[c. 1319]
Description
Petitioners
Steven le Bole of London.
Name(s)
Bole, Steven
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Bole requests remedy as Baldwin and others came by force and arms to his house and took his chattels that they found there away so that he is totally impoverished and dare not sue his right because of the alliance made between them 'for life and death'.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the mayor and sheriffs of London that when they have heard the plea on the contents of the petition they should do justice. And if the cannot do this then Bereford, Staunton and Toutheby or two of them are to be assigned to hear and determine the trespass.
Places mentioned
St Mary-le Bow, London.
People mentioned
John Baldewyne (Baldwin), hatter
William Reyner
John le Litle (Little)
Thomas de Eyton
Walter de Wethyngham
John Scotfeld
Henry de Agmodesham
Richard de Pounfiert.
Note
The petition probably dates to 1319 as all of the individuals cited in this petition by the petitioner are the subject of a commission concerning their conspiracy, they being cappers, to prevent the manufacture and import of caps, and the matter concerning the petition is perhaps linked to this, though it is nowhere overtly stated (CPR 1317-21, p.369).
Related material

For a possibly related petition see SC 8/109/5435

For transcript, see p.11 of PRO 31/7/95

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 455
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.369 (commission to examine the illegal conspiracy of many of the individuals cited in this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149047/

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