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William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury. de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury William King....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/224/11168

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Reference
SC 8/224/11168
Date
[c. 1383]
Description
Petitioners
William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury.
Name(s)
de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, William
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Earl of Salisbury requests action by the commissioners in the case pending in the court of chivalry between himself and John de Montagu, for fear that the witnesses may be absent through death or illness, to his great prejudice. The commissioners should be the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops of London and Llandaff and the Earls of Arundel, Stafford and Oxford, or at least two of them.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] The king has granted this.Oxford.
People mentioned
John de Montagu
Constable of England
Marshal of England
[William Courtenay], Archbishop of Canterbury
[Robert Braybrooke], Bishop of London
[Thomas Rushook], Bishop of Llandaff
[Richard FitzAlan], Earl of Arundel
[Hugh de Stafford], Earl of Stafford
[Robert de Vere], Earl of Oxford.
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1383, and by Rees to 1384-5. The precise position of this petition in the complicated chronology of this dispute is uncertain. The names of the bishops have been supplied assuming a date between 1383 and 1385.
Related material

For a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/231/11550

For a related petition see SC 8/139/6915

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.373-374 (brief summary of petition, incorrectly referenced as SC 8/224/11167)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.507 & p.510 & p.584 & p.588 (various related commissions)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334728/

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