Nicholas de Menyll, formerly Sheriff of Yorkshire. de Menyll Nicholas King. Sheriff...

Petitioners

Nicholas de Menyll, formerly Sheriff of Yorkshire.

Name(s)

de Menyll, Nicholas

Addressees

King.

Occupation

Sheriff of Yorkshire

Nature of request

Nicholas de Menyll states that Simon de Wakefeld, out of ill-feeling towards him because he did not want to have him below him in office when he was Sheriff of Yorkshire, against the King's will, has acquired a commission to John de Lisle and to John de Eure, to inquire into Nicholas when he was Sheriff; and that these justices are harassing him greatly. He asks that the commission might be repealed, or the justices ordered to halt proceedings until the King is better advised, or that some other remedy might be provided, so that he might not be dishonoured by the suit of one who is not a worthy man, or by justices who are his enemies - as he will always be ready to answer any accusations, but would hope that before justices who are not suspect few would complain.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Yorkshire.

People mentioned

Simon de Wakefeld (Wakefield)

John de Lisle

John de Eure.

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/127/6321

• Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), pp.440-441 (order to the Chancellor and Treasurer to ordain a remedy for this matter)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.401 (notification that anyone wishing to retain Simon de Wakefeld in his service may do so, as although the King ordered his removal as Under-sheriff of Yorkshire, it has been attested by Nicholas de Menyll and others that he has not been convicted of any trespass) & p.419 (commission of oyer et terminer to John de Lisle and William Inge concerning offences alleged against the petitioner) & p.493 (association of Henry le Scrope in place of John de Eure in the commission investigating the petit