? petitioner name(s) illegible For the king concerning his English, Gascon and other...

Petitioners

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Nature of request

For the king concerning his English, Gascon and other business:1) Request for people to be assigned to survey the articles of summons and certify him and his council of the perils and remedies that they find in . . .2) Request for the survey of the three perils - disinheritance, destruction and war, and ordain a defence and remedy.3) Survey the form of process and defence and remedies ordained and commenced in the time of the king's grandfather for him and his subjects.4) To survey the reasons whey the perils are much greater now, and the defence and remedies are more necessary.5) Item the remedies ordained by the King's grandfather when he realised that the remedies previously ordained were not sufficient against the aforesaid dangers, for the breaking of agreements made between himself and the lords of foreign lands.6) Item the reasons as to why the form of process, defence and remedy were delayed all the time of the king's father.7) Item the perils of disinheritance by war if the processes, defences and remedies are not hastily reprised and continued.8) [Partly illegible item concerning the ability of the paiers and presiders of the court of France to confiscate the land of Gascony].9) Item, the matter of the defence that the king has against this arrest.10) Item the articles comprised in the credence of messages of the king of France submitted before the king in his parliament at York concerning the confiscation of Gascony.11) Item, the matter of the defence that the king has against this arrest.12) Item the matter pending against the seneschal at the suit of the subjects of the king of France for which the land of Gascony was at another time seized by arrest of the court of France in the time of the king's grandfather, and at another is able to be seized in a similar manner if no remedy is applied.13) Item, the matter of the defence that the king has against this arrest.14) Item the matter of the court of the France to give a similar arrest at the suit of the king of France without a suit of another party.15) Item, the matter of the defence that the king has against this arrest.16) Item the requests ordained by certain advocates of Gascony and rejected by the council of the king's grandfather.17) Item the articles that were defended by the king's grandfather ordained at the last peace of Paris and the articles enjoined to them.18) Item the articles in the covenants of peace made between the king's ancestors and those of the king of France by which they lost much of their inheritance by the customs of the court of France.19) Item the reasons why the powers of the king of France are so restrained that he is not able to make restitution of the lands and liberties seized into the hands of his ancestors by force of arms without the assent of the inhabitants of the land.20) Item the matter that the court of France has given arrests to put in the lands of Gascony and in other lands of the king at the suit of parties contained in the process pending against the king.21) Item the reasons why the king's advocates in the court of France were certain that the king was being disinherited in the court of all the lands thus seized.22) Item, the manner and form in which the aforesaid appeal and submission might better be quashed, and the king restored to the ancient right of his father, and recover the possession of the said lands without making compensation or ransom to the King of France, without harm to himself.23) The request made by the keeper of the process lately commenced on the business to the end that the defences and remedies used by the king's grandfather against the great perils be reprised and continued until better are found.24) Item to the end that the king might not be deceived or harmed in part of his lands or franchises by any customs, in cases where his ancestors were deceived or harmed, or in similar cases, and that the keeper of the process should not be harmed for his delay in warning the king and council of the aforesaid customs and case.

Nature of endorsement

[The articles are continued on the dorse].25) Item the reason that the peers, and presiders of the court of France and the other nobles and commonalty of the realm of France will not allow the king of France to quit the Scottish alliance the which were shown before the commissioners of the kings of England and France and before the king's grandfather.26) Item the perils and dishonours apparent to the nation of England of the reasons by which the king's grandfather and his council being moved to ordain defence and remedies and to order messages and procure for the commonalty of his subjects to Pope Clement at Bordeaux.Response of the Council:The council considers that sufficient clerks be assigned to consider this business and to certify the king and his council of the perils and remedies. The bishops of Ely and Lincoln made writs to Middleton many times to make response, and Middleton certified in Chancery on the contents in the schedule. And the bishop of Lincoln . . . ordinances made by the council in parliament at Westminster in February in the 4th year of the reign . . . commissioners to complete the peace from the time of the king's father and grandfather . . . make to renew . . . Bishops of Worcester and Norwich, and the earl of Lancaster.

Places mentioned

France

Gascony, [France]

Blaye, [Guyenne, France]

Blanquefort, [Guyenne, France]

York

Montreuil, [Ponthieu, France].

People mentioned

Vicomte de Melun

[Pons de Mortagne], viscomte de Aulnay

[Jean I], Comte de Armagnac

[Henry Burghersh], Bishop of Lincoln, Chancellor

[John Hotham], Bishop of Ely, Chancellor

Gilbert de Middelton (Middleton)

[Adam Orleton], Bishop of Worcester

[Henry of Lancaster], earl of Lancaster

[Edward I], King of England.

For the certification with which these articles were formerly enclosed, see SC 8/272/13587