Michael le Spicer of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Spicer Michael King and council. Spicer...

Petitioners

Michael le Spicer of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Name(s)

Spicer, Michael

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Spicer requests remedy for the following:1) Botelstan has disseised him by force and arms of a tenement in Berwick and of a plot of land which he held for a term of years, and sold them to Goswick without Spicer's consent.2) Spicer sold 3 shops in Berwick to Goswick for 10 marks when he was out of his mind, which shops the king had granted him for his damages of £52 when the king conquered Berwick 6 years before.3) Spicer leased a tenement to Dunbar for 6 years, and after the term he demanded delivery of the tenement but could not have it. After Dunbar's death Byntele entered it and Spicer still cannot gain entry.4) Spicer shows that Barber to whom he had entrusted a strong box, colluded with Botelston and broke the box and took his seal to make a quitclaim of a debt that he owed Spicer.

Nature of endorsement

To all the articles he should have a writ of the English Chancery to the chancellor of Scotland that he should do justice to the petitioner by the common law of those parts.

Places mentioned

Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].

People mentioned

John de Botelston

Walter de Gosewyk (Goswick)

Adam de Dunbar

William de Byntele

Richard Barber.

For transcript, see p.132 of PRO 31/7/93

• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.10-11 (no.1) (full edition of petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, nos. 397-401 (full edition and translation)