John Cavendish, citizen of London. Cavendish John King and Council. The petitioner...

Petitioners

John Cavendish, citizen of London.

Name(s)

Cavendish, John

Addressees

King and Council.

Nature of request

The petitioner asks the present parliament to have brought there the record and process of a certain plea of the petitioner (with all things concerning the same) to correct certain legal errors therein, stating that in the record and process and in the award of judgement of the plea in chancery before Michael de la Pole, between the petitioner and Manfeld, Paris, Haukyn and Horsman, upon a bill lately delivered to the king and council by the petitioner in the parliament at Westminster in year seven [1383-4], the bill was endorsed and ordered in chancery by the decision of parliament to have an open discussion there between the parties of the legal mistake plain to see by the aforesaid record.

Nature of endorsement

[None.]

Places mentioned

London

Westminster.

People mentioned

Michael de la Pole, knight, lately chancellor

Gilbert Manfeld (Magfeld), merchant

Robert Paris, merchant

John Haukyn, mariner

Thomas Horsman, mariner.

For a related petition from Manfeld and his colleagues see SC 8/125/6221

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/84/4191

For transcript, see no.44 of PRO 31/7/109

For a related petition see SC 8/214/10692