John de Barton and his companions, merchants. de Barton John King and council. merchants...

Petitioners

John de Barton and his companions, merchants.

Name(s)

de Barton, John

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

merchants

Nature of request

John de Barton and his companions state that when they were in the port of Fecamp with a ship full of merchandise, they were attacked by the men of the Abbot of Fecamp, who stole their goods and killed John's brother Richard. The King's father sent writs to the Abbot to make restitution to them, but he failed to do so, so he sent writs to various sheriffs to levy the value of their goods from the Abbot's merchants coming to England, with the result that the merchants have ceased to come, and execution of these writs cannot be made. They request execution against the Abbot's lands and tenements, goods and chattels, in England instead.

Nature of endorsement

This petition is to be delivered into Chancery, and when the process mentioned in the petition has been seen there, they are to inform themselves on the same process by all other means they can, and if they find that the said Abbot was a trespasser or maintainer, or that the goods came to his profit, execution is then to be made on the Abbot's goods and chattels in England.

Places mentioned

Fecamp, [Normandy, France].

People mentioned

Abbot of Fecamp

Richard [de Barton], brother of John de Barton

[Edward II], King of England.

For a related petition from the Abbot of Fecamp, see SC 8/112/5565

For a related writ, see SC 8/258/12890B

For an earlier related petition from John de Barton, see SC 8/18/879

For a duplicate of that petition, differently endorsed, see SC 8/18/880

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.181-2 (order to the Sheriff of Sussex to carry out arrests against the Abbot)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.985 (appraisement of goods of the Abbot of Fecamp at the suit of John de Barton)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.176-7 (full edition of petition and of summary of petition on later abstract of parliament roll)