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Roger de Suthcote (Southcote); Walter de Rokesle; Richard le Bret (Brett); John Tylly...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E165

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Reference
SC 8/315/E165
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Suthcote (Southcote); Walter de Rokesle; Richard le Bret (Brett); John Tylly (Tilly).
Name(s)
de Suthcote (Southcote); de Rokesle; Bret (Brett); Tylly (Tilly), Roger; Walter; Richard; John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Suthcote, Rokesle, Bret and Tylly request remedy and that they be discharged of the sum demanded from them by writ of the Exchequer and that the records of the barons of the Exchequer be searched as they acted as mainpernors with others for the prior and convent of Stoke by Clare for the taxation of the priory for one year, which sum was paid, but now they are distrained for this further sum by that writ though they were only mainpernors for one year and the prior is assessed as sufficient to pay the sum.
Nature of endorsement
They should go to the Exchequer and let justice be done to them.S [Exchequer].
Places mentioned
Stoke by Clare, [Suffolk]
Bec-Hellouin, [Normandy, France].
People mentioned
Prior and convent of Stoke by Clare.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
Related material

For another petition possibly by the same Richard le Bret, see SC 8/4/152

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529217/

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