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Geoffrey de la Mare. Mare Geoffrey King and Council. Geoffrey de la Mare requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/126/6295

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Reference
SC 8/126/6295
Date
[c. 1324]
Description
Petitioners
Geoffrey de la Mare.
Name(s)
Mare, Geoffrey
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
Geoffrey de la Mare requests that he be released from his imprisonment in the Tower of London, where he has been committed on a false charge by the sheriff of Yorkshire.
Nature of endorsement
Sue a writ in Chancery against the sheriff of Yorkshire that he certify to the King as to the reason for the imprisonment.
Places mentioned
Tower of London, [London]
Yorkshire.
People mentioned
Simon Ward (Warde), sheriff of Yorkshire.
Note
Ward was sheriff of Yorkshire on three occasions between 1315 and 1323. A Geoffrey de la Mare is recorded as a prisoner in the Tower in October 1320 (CCR 1318-23, p. 268) and again in June 1324 (CCR 1323-7, p.125), while another of the men listed in 1324 (John Deyvill) also submitted a petition for release at some stage (SC 8/109/5437). Deyvill's petition states that he had been there for over two years, and if the petition was brought around 1324 (possibly prompting the action on the close roll), he may have been arrested in 1322 as a supporter of Thomas of Lancaster. Since Ward was sheriff at the time of the Battle of Boroughbridge, and fought there, de la Mare may also have been involved in those events. Alternatively he may be the man mentioned in 1320, and was still awaiting release.
Related material

For transcript, see no.42 of PRO 31/7/100

For a similar petition from another prisoner in the Tower at this time see SC 8/109/5437

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5728
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.268 (order to pay wages to the constable of the Tower for keeping the petitioner and other prisoners)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.125 (order to the justices to summon the petitioner and other prisoners before them and do justice)
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