Catalogue description Petitioners: Robert de Cliderhou (Clitheroe), parson of the church of Wigan. ...

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Details of SC 8/16/789
Reference: SC 8/16/789
Description:
Petitioners: Robert de Cliderhou (Clitheroe), parson of the church of Wigan.
Name(s): de Cliderhou (Clitheroe), Robert
Addressees: King and council.
Occupation: parson of the church of Wigan
Nature of request: Robert de Cliderhou, parson of the church of Wigan, states that when he was charged with a redemption of 300 marks before Harvey de Staunton and his companions, because he was an adherent of the Earl of Lancaster, and had prayers said for him in his church, at the following quinzaine of Michaelmas, when Robert came to the Exchequer to sue his business, Robert de Eyleston, on his own account, had him arrested and imprisoned, and forbade him on behalf of the king from leaving the town until he had made satisfaction to the king for the 300 marks, although he had found sufficient mainprise before Hervey de Staunton. Thus he remained under arrest in London until the quinzaine of Easter following, when he had sold his land and paid 200 marks of the ransom and £20 for Queen's gold. He requests grace and a remedy for the imprisonment and the money thus paid contrary to reason.
Nature of endorsement: The record held before Hervey de Stanton is to be brought into Chancery, and there it is to be seen whether the reason for the ransom was such as the petition claims, and the king is to be informed so that he can speak his will on the matter. And with regard to the imprisonment, he is to sue at common law.
Places mentioned: Wigan, [Lancashire]; London.
People mentioned: Robert de Eyleston (Ayleston); [Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster; Hervey de Staunton.
Note: By reference to SC 8/16/786, this petition is probably also from early in the reign of Edward III. It might perhaps be slightly later than SC 8/16/786: having been given an unfavourable answer to that one, is the petitioner now trying a different tack?CCR 1330-3 p.576 shows that the petitioner was still parson of Wigan church on 8 July 1332.
Date: [c. 1327]
Related material:

Another petition from the same petitioner, partly on the same topic, is SC 8/16/786
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1486
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.406a-b (no. 158) (full edition of related petition)

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