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None. King and council. A remedy is requested concerning Lengleyse who killed the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/170/8470

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Reference
SC 8/170/8470
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
None.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
A remedy is requested concerning Lengleyse who killed the mayor of Lynn and abjured the realm but remained in England for 3 years, and was captured and became an appealer in the keeping of Teesdale and was moved to York where he made to indict Mawley and others and they were taken to London and were alleged to be of the accord of Mortimer.
Nature of endorsement
The man is not able to answer to this petition because those who complained have not shown themselves to be aggrieved.
Places mentioned
King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
York
London
Warham, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
John Lengleyse (the English) of Wirhale
Alan de Tesdeyl (Teesdale), valet of Hugh le Despenser, the son
Peter de Mawley
John Mawliverer
Geoffrey Lupsale
Roger de Mortimere (Mortimer).
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 4 Edw. III (1330) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.37b (no.35)).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.238 (earlier commission into the matter)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.37b (no.35) (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. 35 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294319/

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