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People of his ancient demesne of Bray and Cookham. King and council. The people request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/162/8071

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Reference
SC 8/162/8071
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
People of his ancient demesne of Bray and Cookham.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people request remedy as Kew ransomed them for £60 of silver to levy men-at-arms against the present king when he came into England to destroy the Despensers, which sum was received at the Exchequer of the late king, and committed other ransoms and imprisonments in that country for which the late king ordered an enquiry before whom Kells was indicted, but the late king provided no remedy and Kells left England.
Nature of endorsement
They should sue before those assigned to enquire and to hear and determine trespasses, oppressions and complaints made by sheriffs, sub-sheriffs and other ministers etc. and before them let justice be done.
Places mentioned
Bray, [Berkshire]
Cookham, [Berkshire].
People mentioned
John le Kew, late bailiff and farmer of the manors of Bray and Cookham
[Hugh le] Despenser, [the elder]
[Hugh le] Despenser, [the younger]
Robert de Wodehouse (Woodhouse), justice
Robert de Holdene (Holden), justice
Simon de . . ., justice.
Note
The petition is dated to 1330 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held at Westminster in November 1330 (4 Edw. III) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.38a (no.37)).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.38a (no.37) (Full edition of later copy of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 37 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293915/

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