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Thomas de Knyghtebregge (Knightsbridge). de Knyghtebregge (Knightsbridge) Thomas...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5951

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This record is about the Thomas de Knyghtebregge (Knightsbridge). de Knyghtebregge (Knightsbridge) Thomas... dating from [1317-1323] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/120/5951
Date
[1317-1323]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas de Knyghtebregge (Knightsbridge).
Name(s)
de Knyghtebregge (Knightsbridge), Thomas
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
Knyghtebregge requests remedy from the mayor of London and from Herdersete, king's clerk assigned to receive cognisance of debts of Acton Burnel, of those who have maliciously certified the court for to recover a recognisance of £50 as Thomas le Broun recovered lands and tenements of William Broun in Middlesex and London to hold under the Statute of Acton Burnel until he had received £50, but after his death his executors sued for it again and recovered it and Knyghtebregge was not warned of the suit as has been ousted.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to Bereford that by the cause that he is to make the process of the recognisance come before the king; and let it be ordered to Scrope that if he find that the recognisance was at another time executed he is to bring the process before him and do justice.
Places mentioned
Middlesex
London
Acton Burnel, [Shropshire]
St Antholin, Budge Row, London.
People mentioned
William Broun
Thomas le Broun, clerk
William de Bereford, justice
John le Blound (Blount), former mayor of London
Thomas de Asshewell, parson of St Antholin, London, executor of Thomas Broun
Robert de Pipherst, executor of Thomas Broun
sheriff of Middlesex
Henry le Scrope
William de Hedersete.
Note
Datable between 1317 and 1323, by reference to William Bereford as chief justice of Common Pleas and Henry Scrope as chief justice of King's Bench.
Related material

For transcript, see no.63 of PRO 31/7/103

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4683
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150644/

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