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Nicholas Watyes. Watyes Nicholas King and other lords of parliament. Nicholas Watyes...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/148/7366B
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/148/7366B
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1406]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicholas Watyes.
- Name(s)
- Watyes, Nicholas
- Addressees
- King and other lords of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Nicholas Watyes states that he was impleaded in Worcester by one Thomas Botheby, chantry chaplain at the altar of Our Lady in the church of St Helen, Worcester, concerning 8s. of rent that Thomas claimed Nicholas owed him for a messuage, which Nicholas claims to be held of the King in socage, and that, through the maintenance of Thomas Belle, then one of the Bailiffs of Worcester, the assize went against him. He sued a writ of error before William Gascoigne, and his companions, justices of King's Bench, but Thomas Belle managed to substitute a false record for the true one, and so he can have no remedy. He requests a remedy in the present parliament if possible, and if it is not, that the matter might be entrusted to the Chancellor, justices and others of the council to be assigned to this, to examine the record by questioning Richard Oseney, formerly clerk of Worcester, and by other means which seem good, and to do justice and punish this forgery.
- Nature of endorsement
- This petition is to be sent to the Chancellor, and the same Chancellor, summoning the justices, is to have power and authority of parliament to summon before him both the parties and the clerks and others who are to be summoned in this matter, and to examine them on it, and to do justice to them, and also to punish those who seem to them to be punishable in this case, according to the discretions of the aforesaid Chancellor and justices.And be it remembered that on Tuesday, the eve of the Purification of Our Lady, in the present King's eighth year, a day was given to the parties to appear in Chancery a month after the following Easter.
- Places mentioned
- Worcester, [Worcestershire]
- London.
- People mentioned
- Thomas Botheby, chantry chaplain at the altar of Our Lady in the church of St Helen, Worcester
- Thomas Belle (Bell), Bailiff of Worcester
- Richard Gascoigne, Bailiff of Worcester
- William Courtenay, brother of Nicholas Watyes
- William Gascoigne, justice of King's Bench
- Richard Oseney, clerk of Worcester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The second endorsement was written on the eve of the Purification, 8 Henry IV (1 February 1407). This petition would seem to have been presented to the previous parliament, that of 1406.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.33A of PRO 31/7/113
For a related writ to Thomas Botheby, see SC 8/148/7366A
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209551/
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