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John le Crepe, burgess of Caernarfon. Crepe John King. burgess of Caernarfon John...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/99/4901

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Reference
SC 8/99/4901
Date
[1283]
Description
Petitioners
John le Crepe, burgess of Caernarfon.
Name(s)
Crepe, John
Addressees
King.
Occupation
burgess of Caernarfon
Nature of request
John le Crepe, burgess of Caernarfon states that he sold a tenement to John Tankard in Ireland: but that since he has been in seisin of this tenement, John has not paid him, because he has no deed. He can get no justice against John, for favour, and requests the King's grace and a remedy, as all his goods are burnt in Caernarfon, and he cannot build there without the King's help.
Nature of endorsement
The Justiciar of Ireland is to be ordered to help him as much as he can without offence to the law.
Places mentioned
Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
Ireland.
People mentioned
John Tankard.
Note
Dated to the Acton Burnel parliament of Michaelmas 1283 by PROME, C 49, File 2, appendix, no. 32(xiv) and Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined. p.22 (no.32k).
Related material

For transcript, see p.18 of PRO 31/7/92

For a contemporary petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/89/4422

For a list of petitions from 1283, probably including this one, see C 49/2/3

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1598
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.33 (brief calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.22 (no.32k) (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), C 49, File 2, appendix, no. 32(xiv) (full edition and translation)
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