John de Brent son of Thomas de Brent (John Fitz Thomas de Brent). de Brent ; Fitz...

Petitioners

John de Brent son of Thomas de Brent (John Fitz Thomas de Brent).

Name(s)

de Brent ; Fitz Thomas, John; John

Addressees

King and his council in this present parliament.

Nature of request

Fitz Thomas requests that the charter of the abbot of Glastonbury be brought before them and the justices so that according to a good declaration of the charter right and justice is able to be done to rich and poor alike. Fitz Thomas has brought an assize against the abbot, but the abbot has claimed cognizance of the assize by virtue of a charter granted to him by the king's predecessors that Fitz Thomas states to be insufferable and not maintainable by the law that a party can have cognizance of an assize, and it would leave him without a suit.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Brent, [Somerset].

People mentioned

Henry Percehay (Percy), justice of assize in Somerset

Walter Clopton, justice of assize in Somerset

John [Chynnok (Wynchestre)], Abbot of Glastonbury

John de Breynton, Abbot of Westminster

Thomas, father of the petitioner.

For a duplicate of SC 8/94/4673 see SC 8/94/4676

For another petition by the same petitioner against the same abbot see SC 8/94/4673