Nicholas de Stapelton. de Stapelton Nicholas King and council. Nicholas de Stapelton...

Petitioners

Nicholas de Stapelton.

Name(s)

de Stapelton, Nicholas

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Nicholas de Stapelton states that because he was of the company and retinue of the Earl of Lancaster, he was imprisoned in York castle immediately after the Earl's death, and his lands, chattels and valuables, and the muniments concerning his inheritance taken into the King's hand; and he was afterwards made to pay a redemption by Hugh le Despenser and others, to be released from prison. His lands and chattels are still in the King's hand; and he has nothing to live on. He asks that he might be quit of this wrongful redemption, and that he might have his lands, chattels and muniments back, together with the issues from his lands in the meantime.

Nature of endorsement

This petition is to be sent into Chancery, and the Chancellor is to be advised of the reason for the taking of the lands, tenements and muniments contained in this petition into the King's hand; and if they were taken into the King's hand because of the quarrel etc., and not for any other reason, the lands and tenements are to be restored, with the issues and the arrears of the farm of which the King is not served; and the muniments are to be delivered and the fine and redemption annulled in the roll of Chancery. And a writ is to be sent to the Treasurer and Barons etc. to have it annulled there.

Places mentioned

York.

People mentioned

[Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster

Hugh le Despenser.

For another earlier petition on the same matter, see SC 8/271/13548

For another petition possibly by the same petitioner, see SC 8/92/4584

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.4-5 (order to return the petitioner's lands and tenements, with the issues and the arrears of the farms which did not come into the late King's hand)
• The Honor and Forest of Pickering, North Riding Record Society, new series,, Ed. R.B. Turton, (North Riding Record Society, 1896), pp.248-9 (edition and translation of petition)