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Walter de Hoptone (Hopton). de Hoptone (Hopton) Walter King and council. Hoptone...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13125

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Reference
SC 8/263/13125
Date
[c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
Walter de Hoptone (Hopton).
Name(s)
de Hoptone (Hopton), Walter
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Hoptone recounts that at the eyre of Norfolk, which took place at Norwich at St Hilary at beginning of this year, it was presented before Rochester and his companions at the request of the town of Yarmouth that the abbot of St Benet had obstructed a river and Rochester acted on this as he thought right. The petitioner was not one of the justices because Rochester would not accept him into the group until the King ordered it by his letter from Reading to Norwich, which writ Berwick has in his custody and also enrolled. Hoptone knew nothing of this presentment until he was told at the Guildhall of London to appear before the King's council at Westminster, from where he was sent to the Tower of London. Hoptone requests that the King enquire in the counties where he has been in his service, both in England and Ireland, how he has served, and if he finds anything but good, he should then do with him as he deserves, and if he finds nothing but good, he prays that no evil be done him and that the King not bear ill will against him.
Nature of endorsement
The King ... nothing.
Places mentioned
Norfolk
Norwich, [Norfolk]
St Benet's Abbey, [Norfolk]
Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
Reading, [Berkshire]
London
Westminster
Ireland.
People mentioned
Solomon de Rochester, justice
Abbot of St Benet
John de Berewyke (Berwick).
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1290, since this is the date of the parliament to which it belongs (Rot. Parl. Vol. I, p. 56).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.56b (no.134) (Latin edition of petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, no.160 (edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517070/

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