Nicholas Twyford, knight. Twyford Nicholas King and lords of parliament. Nicholas...

Petitioners

Nicholas Twyford, knight.

Name(s)

Twyford, Nicholas

Addressees

King and lords of parliament.

Nature of request

Nicholas Twyford states that Walter Sibille committed certain trespasses in the vill of Exning in Suffolk, for which he was attached, and because the matter concerned Nicholas' free tenement and his disinheritance, he sued an assize against him and recovered the tenement by verdict of that assize. Walter then made false claims in Chancery that trespasses had been committed against him in Cambridgeshire, and obtained an oyer et terminer there, which he used to pursue a claim that the free tenement was in fact in Cambridgeshire, not Suffolk, and to indict around thirty-three people, mostly the King's tenants. Nicholas asks that this oyer et terminer might be repealed and annulled.

Nature of endorsement

The King, by the advice of his council in parliament, wills that all matters between Nicholas Twyford, knight and William Coggeshale, knight and Walter Sibille, both concerning the assizes of novel disseisin which Nicholas and William brought separately against Walter and others, concerning tenements in Exning, and concerning the oyer et teminer that Walter brought against Thomas Skeppe and others concerning trespasses that he claimed they committed against him at Landwade, and all other things touching the said matters, are to remain in the state in which they now are until the next parliament, although the oyer et terminer may continue from day to day without further process being made until the next parliament, if the parties cannot come to an agreement in the meantime. And the necessary writs are to be issued for both parties in this case. And Nicholas and Walter have further agreed in parliament that each of them will choose three arbiters to find an agreement between them; and if they cannot do so, they have agreed to abide by the arbitration of Richard Lescrop, chosen as arbiter of these matters by both sides.Then, at the parliament held at Westminster on the morrow of Martinmas in the King's fourteenth year, the parties delivered to parliament a schedule, sewn to this petition, recognising that they were fully agreed, as is contained in the said schedule. And a day was given to them at the next parliament.

Places mentioned

Exning, Suffolk

Cambridgeshire

Landwade, [Cambridgeshire]

Westminster.

People mentioned

Walter Sibille (Sibile)

Thomas Skeppe

William Coggeshale, knight

Richard Lescrop (Le Scrope).

For the schedule mentioned in the endorsement, see SC 8/143/7130B

For transcript, see no.61 of PRO 31/7/111

For a later petition by Walter Sibile on this matter, see SC 8/21/1044