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John Clarel. Clarel John King and council. John Clarel requests remedy because on...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13127

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Reference
SC 8/263/13127
Date
[c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
John Clarel.
Name(s)
Clarel, John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
John Clarel requests remedy because on the eve of the Assumption of Our Lady in the tenth year of Edward I [1282] he was at Vercelli in Lombardy on an embassy for the King, but it was presented against him by foresters and verderers that Clifford and Richard and William Ospringe, his men though he neither has seen nor knows them, had gone with his dogs into the King's forest of the Peak and taken a stag and two otters to Clarel's house, which is far from the forest and outside the county, and so the justices of the forest eyre before whom this presentment was made amerced him at £100, though he was then out of the country.1)
Nature of endorsement
Petition of John Clarel.2) Before the King on membrane 2.3) The King understands.4) The king has learned by the record of the justices of the forest that he was convicted of the taking and receiving of a stag.
Places mentioned
Vercelli, [Italy]
Lombardy, [Italy]
Peak Forest, [Derbyshire].
People mentioned
Edward [I], King of England
Duket de Clyfford (Clifford)
Richard de Ospryng (Ospringe)
William [de Ospringe], brother of Richard de Ospringe.
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1290, since this is the date of the parliament to which it belongs (Rot. Parl. Vol. II, p. 48).
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.48b (no.38) (incomplete 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.41 (edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517072/

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