Catalogue description Petitioners: Richard Spark of London, skinner. Name(s): Spark, Richard ...

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Details of SC 8/277/13821
Reference: SC 8/277/13821
Description:
Petitioners: Richard Spark of London, skinner.
Name(s): Spark, Richard
Addressees: King and lords of Parliament.
Occupation: skinner
Nature of request: Spark requests remedy because whereas ... and Emma Wrottyngge [held] certain lands and tenements late of Grauestoke in East Smithfield ... as Emma's right, and which pertained to her after the death of her mother ..., who took Grantham as her second husband but had no further issue, and after whose death Grantham occupied the same lands and tenements for over 12 years, holding then illegally as he had no title in them as found by the assize of mort d'ancestor, but when he returned from Calais, for which journey he had the King's protection, he presented a forged charter, which had never been seen before the said protection, which claimed that Grauestoke had enfeoffed him, his heirs and assigns in the said lands.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: London; East Smithfield, Middlesex; Calais, [France].
People mentioned: [...] de Wrottyngge; Emma [de Wrottyngge], wife of [...] de Wrottyngge; John de Grauestoke; Sarah atte Wode, mother of Emma de Wrottyngge, daughter and heir of [...]; John de Grantham, vintner; Richard Lyons.
Note: Dated on the guard to c. 1381 since two references to a Richard Spark, skinner of London appear in the Patent Rolls for this year (CPR 1381-5, p. 1 and p. 8).
Date: [c. 1381]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.1 (pardon of outlawry at suit of petitioner) & p.8 (pardon of forfeiture of good incurred by outlawry at suit of petitioner)

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