Robert de Thorp, son and heir of John de Thorp. de Thorp Robert King and council....

Petitioners

Robert de Thorp, son and heir of John de Thorp.

Name(s)

de Thorp, Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

[The petition is badly damaged with much of the right-hand half the petition being illegible].Thorp requests remedy and that the law of the land and the great charter be kept as he has requested livery of his estates in the manor of Combs but the chancellor did not wish to grant it, and his petition to parliament was not answered.

Nature of endorsement

Let the process be brought before the council.

Places mentioned

Combs, [Suffolk].

People mentioned

John de Thorp (Thorpe)

Robert de Baldok (Baldock), then chancellor

Ralph Avenel

Alice [de Thorp], widow of John de Thorp.

For another copy of a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/166/8297

For a related certification of the Exchequer, see SC 8/8/356A

For another copy of the related writ, see SC 8/166/8299

For another copy of the related certification of the Exchequer, see SC 8/166/8298

For a transcript of a related writ, see SC 8/8/356B

For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter, see SC 8/8/355

• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), pp.233-4 (order to the escheator on a related matter)
• 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp.416-29, no.12 (summary of references)