Catalogue description Petitioners: William Leygrave (Legrave) of Bristol. Name(s): Leygrave (Legrave),...

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Details of SC 8/21/1048
Reference: SC 8/21/1048
Description:
Petitioners: William Leygrave (Legrave) of Bristol.
Name(s): Leygrave (Legrave), William
Addressees: King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request: William Leygrave states that in the fourteenth year of the king's reign he recovered a messuage and six shops in Bristol by an assize of fresh force against John Carleton and Maud his wife, and Hugh Carleton and Edith his wife; but that in the fifteenth year, John and Maud sued a writ of error, overturning this judgment; which writ and process contain errors. He requests that the king and lords order the justices to appear before them, with the record of the assize of fresh force and all the circumstances and causes of its annulment, to hear the errors in the annulment, to redress them, and to make restitution and do justice to the supplicant.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Bristuyt (Bristol), [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned: Ellis Spelly, Mayor of Bristol; Robert Dudbroke (Dudbrook), Bailiff of Bristol; John Selewode (Selwood), Bailiff of Bristol; John Carleton; Maud [Carleton]; Hugh Carleton; Edith [Carleton]; Thomas Knap, Mayor of Bristol; John Bourton, Bailiff of Bristol; Richard Hanceford, Bailiff of Bristol.
Note: Enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster at the Quinzaine of St Hilary, 17 Richard II (1394) (Rot. Parl. vol. III, pp.314b-315a).
Date: [1394]
Related material:

Another petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/58/2882

Another petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/58/2853

For a related petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/21/1047
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 5062
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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.314b-315a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)

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