Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Back to search results Start a new search

Item

Richard de Marnham. de Marnham Richard [None specified] Richard de Marnham requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/127/6338

What’s it about?

This record is about the Richard de Marnham. de Marnham Richard [None specified] Richard de Marnham requests... dating from [1293] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

Is it available online?

Yes, this record is available online and can be downloaded. How to view it.

Can I see it in person?

No, this record is not available to see in person at The National Archives. Other ways to view it.

Full description and record details

Reference
SC 8/127/6338
Date
[1293]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Marnham.
Name(s)
de Marnham, Richard
Addressees
[None specified]
Nature of request
Richard de Marnham requests that right be done regarding his case against the Prior of Sandwell. He states that he was wrongly convicted of illegal fishing in the Thames on the false procurement of the then Prior and two monks, even though he and his ancestors had always enjoyed free fishing in that part of the river, and had been sent to prison in Stafford, causing him damages of £40.
Nature of endorsement
Pledges to prosecute: Robert le Provost of Oxley, and Luke his brother of the same.Pledges for the Prior of Sandwell and Roger, monk of the same: Philip Othehull of Bromwich and John Fyne of the same.Not prosecuted.Presented in Offlow, Tuesday after the Purification.
Places mentioned
Sandwell, [Staffordshire]
Offlow hundred, [Staffordshire]
Burton upon Trent, [Staffordshire]
Stafford, [Staffordshire]
Oxley, [Staffordshire]
West Bromwich, [Staffordshire].
People mentioned
[Richard de la Barre, former] Prior of Sandwell
Roger, monk of Sandwell
sheriff of Staffordshire
Edward [I], King of England
Thomas, [present] Prior of Sandwell
Robert le Provost of Oxley
Luke [le Provost] of Oxley
Philip Othehull (of the Hill) of Bromwich
John Fyne of Bromwich.
Note
This is clearly a stray plaint from the Staffordshire eyre of 1293, the other plaints for which are now in JUST 1/1553 (with further strays elsewhere). The eyre took place between 7 and 22 January 1293 in Lichfield, and 27 January and 25 February 1293 in Stafford (D. Crook, Records of the General Eyre, p.176). The case also appears in the records of the assizes; for details see G Wrottesley (ed.), 'Plea Rolls of the Reign of Edward I', Collections for a History of Staffordshire, VI:I (1885), p.224.
Related material

For further details of this case see m.14 of JUST 1/804

For other similar plaints from the Staffordshire eyre of 1293, see JUST 1/1553

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5795
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208515/

How to order it

  1. View this record page in our current catalogue
  2. Check viewing and downloading options
  3. Select an option and follow instructions
View this record page

Series information

SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

74,884 records

Within the department: SC

Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly...

18,283 records

Within the series: SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

53 records

Within the piece: SC 8/127

6301-6350. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item...

You are currently looking at the item: SC 8/127/6338

Richard de Marnham. de Marnham Richard [None specified] Richard de Marnham requests...

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.