? No Petitioner named Letter to the Chancellor from the Mayor and people of Lincoln,...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Letter to the Chancellor from the Mayor and people of Lincoln, recommending William Virly for the office of clerk of the statute merchant in Lincoln, and asking that he might be appointed, as they have had no clerk since Adam de Thorp's deputy was chased from the city at the beginning of August, with the small part of the seal of the statute, by the threats and menaces of Thomas de Carleton and John Judkyn.

Nature of endorsement

To the King's Chancellor.

Places mentioned

Lincoln, Lincolnshire.

People mentioned

Chancellor of England

Mayor and people of Lincoln

William Virly

Adam de Thorp, clerk of the statute merchant in Lincoln

Thomas de Carleton of Lincoln

John Judkyn

Nicholas de Cauntelow, justice.

For a petition which mentions Virly as clerk of the statute merchant in Lincoln, see SC 8/56/2758

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1338-1340, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.198 (appointment of Virly as clerk of the statute merchant in Lincoln after the death of Hugh de Carleton) & p.202 (appointment of Thomas de Carleton) & p.254 (appointment of Adam de Thorp) & p.433 (permission for Thorp to exercise the office by deputy)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1340-1343, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.14 (re-appointment of Thomas de Carleton) & pp.323-4 (commission of oyer et terminer to Nicholas de Cauntelow and others concerning trespasses committed by Thomas de Carleton)