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? No Petitioner named Writ of Richard II ordering the justices of assize in Lincolnshire...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/214/10670

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ of Richard II ordering the justices of assize in Lincolnshire... dating from 1399 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/214/10670
Date
1399
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Richard II ordering the justices of assize in Lincolnshire to examine and consider Askeby's petition and to do justice to him.
Nature of endorsement
The response of Thirnyng and Tirwhyt is in a schedule attached to this writ.
Places mentioned
Lincolnshire
Grimsby, [Lincolnshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard II, King of England
Geoffrey Askeby, mayor of Grimsby
Spryngthorp (Springthorp)
William Thirnyng (Thirning), justice of assize in Lincolnshire
Robert Tirwhyt (Tirwhit), justice of assize in Lincolnshire
Justices of assize in Lincolnshire.
Note
Dated internally to 12 February in the twenty-second year of Richard II (1399).
Related material

For the inquisition attached to this writ see SC 8/214/10671

For the petition to which this writ refers see SC 8/214/10672

For a duplicate of the petition with endorsement see SC 8/214/10689

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. VI, 16-23 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1963), p.252 (no.424) (calendar of this and related documents)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334227/

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