Catalogue description Petitioners: Robert Hauley (Hawley); John Shakil (Shakell). Name(s): Hauley...

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Details of SC 8/18/895
Reference: SC 8/18/895
Description:
Petitioners: Robert Hauley (Hawley); John Shakil (Shakell).
Name(s): Hauley (Hawley); Shakil (Shakell), Robert; John
Addressees: King and other lords of parliament.
Nature of request: Robert Hauley and John Shakil, who are imprisoned in the Tower of London for the hostage, the son of the Count of Denia, and cannot be released until the hostage is in the king's hands, request that four bishops, four earls, four barons and four knights of the council, or fewer if the king wishes, be assigned to hear their right and their evidence, and to report back to the king and council on this, so that they can come to a suitable decision on the supplicants.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: London; Denia, [Spain].
People mentioned: [Alfonso de Villena], Count of Denia; [Alfonso de Villena], son of the Count of Denia.
Note: Rot. Parl. vol. III p.50a-b (no. 2) assigns this petition to 2 Richard II (22 June 1378 - 21 June 1379), and more specifically, to the parliament held at Gloucester, on the Wednesday following the feast of St Luke, 2 Richard II (1378). However, as Hawley was dead by that time (see Nigel Saul, Richard II (New Haven, 1997), pp.36-38), this petition must have been presented to the parliament of October 1377.According to Saul (p.36), this was the month in which the two men were committed to the Tower.CCR 1377-81 p.326 is dated at Westminster, 17 September 1379, and pp.482-3 is dated at Westminster, 17 December 1380. CPR 1377-81 p.546 is dated at Westminster, 10 October 1380.
Date: [1377]
Related material:

Another petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/18/894

Another petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/18/893

For a related petition see SC 8/139/6932
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 4167
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), p.326 (order to release John Shakel from the Tower) & pp.482-3 (recognisance of Guy de Briene as security for John Shakel's payment of the ransom received for this hostage, and indenture between Guy de Briene, John Shakel and the king, related to the same ransom and John's arrest)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.546 (protection for John Shakel, who has custody of the count of Denia's son, who is hostage for his father)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.50a-b (no.2) (full edition of original petition)

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