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? No Petitioner named Summary of court proceedings in case between Robert de Leyset...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/168/8380B

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Reference
SC 8/168/8380B
Date
[c. 1323]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Summary of court proceedings in case between Robert de Leyset and the executors of Walter Langton, former Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, presented as evidence with Leyset's petition at SC 8/168/8380A. Includes transcript of a writ dated 22 January 1323, ordering an investigation into the matters surrounding the problems with Leyset's accounts.
Nature of endorsement
Petition of Master Robert de Leyset.
Places mentioned
Bedfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Stow Park, [Lincolnshire]
Donyngton (Dunnington), [East Riding of Yorkshire]
York archdiocese.
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England
Robert de Leyset, former constable of Bordeaux
Edward I, King of England
Edmund de Jollains (Jolla)
Walter [Langton], former Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Gilbert de Bruera, executor of Walter Langton
John de Langeton (Langton), executor of Walter Langton
John de Pateshull, executor of Walter Langton
John Fraunceys (Frances)
John Spynk
[William Melton], Archbishop of York.
Note
The writ transcribed within this document was dated at Stow Park on 22 January 16 [Edward II] (1323), indicating that the document itself, and the petition at SC 8/168/8380A, must date from some point after that date.A note on the guard states that this document was added to this file on 10 January 1975, but no original location or former reference is given.
Related material

For the petition to which this document was formerly attached see SC 8/168/8380A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.309b (earlier related petition regarding the loss of Leyset's accounts)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294226/

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