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Robert le Bret (Brett). Bret (Brett) Robert King. Bret requests aid and justice as...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/91/4511

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Reference
SC 8/91/4511
Date
[c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
Robert le Bret (Brett).
Name(s)
Bret (Brett), Robert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Bret requests aid and justice as Sutton and Splyng unjustly took a certain plough horse of his at Ham, and detain it against gauge and pledge, and against a writ of replevin.1)
Nature of endorsement
In Chancery.2) He should have a writ of replevin just as before.
Places mentioned
Essex
Barking, [Essex]
Ham, Essex
Stratford Langthorn, Essex.
People mentioned
Richard de Sutton, sub-bailiff of Barking
John Splyng, bailiff of the abbot of Stratford Langthorn
Abbot of Stratford Langthorn.
Note
Dated on the guard to?18 Edward I, but no evidence cited.
Related material

For transcript, see p.92 of PRO 31/7/92

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 478
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149057/

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