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John de Chesterton of Grantham. de Chesterton John Duke and council. John de Chesterton...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/98/4888

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Reference
SC 8/98/4888
Date
[c. 1377-c. 1380]
Description
Petitioners
John de Chesterton of Grantham.
Name(s)
de Chesterton, John
Addressees
Duke and council.
Nature of request
John de Chesterton of Grantham states that he lost an assize of novel disseisin against William de Bukminster concerning lands and tenements in Bridge End, because, by agreement between them, William's attorney, William de Poynton the younger, falsely recorded in Chancery that John had two attorneys, William Baudewyn of Barrowby and Ralph Maresshal of Pointon - who were never his attorneys - and then used this to challenge an essoin. John requests a remedy for this deceit.
Nature of endorsement
The justices of the Bench are to be ordered by writ containing the effect of this petition that, when they have heard John's complaint and summoned before them both William de Bukminster and William de Poynton, and William Baudwyn and Ralph, and when they have heard their arguments on one side and the other, if they can establish by inquisition or by recognisance of William, William, William and Ralph, or of any of them, that John lost the aforesaid lands through the said collusion, then they are to do justice, both for the King and for John, both for the deceit and collusion, and for the recovery of the tenements.
Places mentioned
Grantham, [Lincolnshire]
Billingborough, [Lincolnshire]
Bridge End, [Lincolnshire]
Barrowby, [Lincolnshire]
Pointon, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
William de Bukminster (Buckminster)
William de Poynton (Pointon) the younger
William Baudewyn of Barrowby
Ralph Maresshal (Marshal) of Pointon
[John of Gaunt], Duke [of Lancaster].
Note
If this petition is addressed to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, then it would seem to date from the very end of Edward III's reign, or the minority of Richard II.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1571
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149455/

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