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? No Petitioner named Writ of Richard II ordering the mayor and bailiffs of York...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/213/10636

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ of Richard II ordering the mayor and bailiffs of York... dating from 1380 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/213/10636
Date
1380
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Richard II ordering the mayor and bailiffs of York to send to the Chancery the record and process had before them in the King's court of York, of the bill by Howom and Sevenhous against Rufford.
Nature of endorsement
Response of Gisburn, Talkan, Warde and Alne to this writ: they were present at York on 4 August 1380 and answered that they cannot send the record and process to the Chancery because no bill was brought before them in the King's court at York by Howom and Sevenhous against Rufford, but there was a petition concerning Rufford delivered to Gisburn by Sevenhous at the request of the commons of York, the tenor of which is in a schedule attached to this writ.
Places mentioned
York
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard II, King of England
Thomas de Howom
John de Sevenhous, junior
John Rufford
[John de] Scarle
John de Gysburn (Gisburn), mayor of York
Robert de Talkan, baillif of York
Robert Warde, bailiff of York
Richard de Alne, bailiff of York
Mayor and bailiffs of York.
Related material

For a related writ and petition see no. 8 of C 260/92

For the petition to the mayor of York mentioned in the response, see SC 8/213/10637

For a related petition see SC 8/212/10596

For a related writ see SC 8/212/10595

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334193/

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