Gerard de Lane, clerk, of Gascony. de Lane Gerard King and council. clerk [This petition...

Petitioners

Gerard de Lane, clerk, of Gascony.

Name(s)

de Lane, Gerard

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

[This petition is badly damaged] Gerard de Lane makes four requests:1) He petitions concerning the Vicomte d'Orthe, who has killed more than 50 men, women and children, and driven others out of their homes and possessions. He has then appealed to the King of France. He asks that the judgment on this man by his peers might be put into execution.2) He accuses the Vicomte, with Peter Arnold his brother and John de Spremunt, castellan of Aspremont, of the murder of Bertrand de Lane and Bernard his brother, and Peter de Lane his uncle, and nine of the king's men, in the Vicomte's castle of Aspremont, asks the king, in consideration of this horrible deed, to ask the King of France to arrest the Vicomte and the others, and to order the Seneschal of Gascony to seize the bodies and goods of anyone helping them; and that justice might be done.3) He asks that the £100 of Bordeaux that the king granted to Bertrand from the prevote of the Ile d'Oleron might be granted . . . for term of life.4) He asks that [he] might be granted a benefice in England or in Gascony, in consideration of his service in Scotland.

Nature of endorsement

. . . written below.

Places mentioned

Gascony, [France]

Aspremont, [Gascony, France]

Ile d'Oleron, [Saintonge, France].

People mentioned

Vicomte d'Orthe

King of France

Bertrand de Lane

Bernard (Bernat) [de Lane], brother of Bertrand de Lane

Peter (Pey) de Lane, uncle of Gerard de Lane

Peter Arnold (Pey Arnaut), bother of the Vicomte

John (Joan) de Spremunt, castellan of Aspremont

Gaillard (Galhard) . . ..

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/56/2797