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Ralph Esterling. Esterling Ralph King. Esterling requests that the king do him grace...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/272/13553

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Reference
SC 8/272/13553
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Ralph Esterling.
Name(s)
Esterling, Ralph
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Esterling requests that the king do him grace concerning his abjuration, and that he can have his goods and chattels. He made abjuration because he was arrested by Marchant on the complaint of Lyhot, and while Marchant was taking him to prison a dispute arose between Marchant and Colford by which they killed each other as a consequence of which he fled.
Nature of endorsement
The coroners of the islands are to be asked in writing to send the form and reason for the abjuration to the next parliament.
Places mentioned
Guernsey, [Channel Islands]
St Peter Port, Guernsey, [Channel Islands].
People mentioned
Robert Lyhot, parson of St Peter Port
William le Marchant, provost of St Peter Port
William de Coleford (Colford), customs official of St Peter Port.
Note
The petition dates to 1305 as a Latin summary of the petition was enrolled on the roll for the Lent parliament of that year (Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined., pp.49-50).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Les Cours Royales des Iles Normandes, J. Havet, (, 1878), p.199 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.49-50 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll and full edition)
  • 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), Lent 1305 Channel Islands membrane, appendix, no.8 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517500/

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