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Details of SC 8/19/915A
Reference: SC 8/19/915A
Description:
Petitioners: Master and scholars of Mokel Universite Hall (University College) Oxford.
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The master and scholars of University College Oxford, state that one Edmund Franceys of London, a very wealthy man, has sued against some of the tenants of the college for their lands, and has acquired them by collusion and false pleading. Now, thinking that the college is too poor to maintain a suit against him, he is trying to acquire the rest of their endowment, and has brought a writ of nisi prius against them for this, against which they do not have the power to put up a defence, although they have sufficient evidence, as he has procured those empanelled on the inquest to be of his party. They request that the parties be summoned before the council to show their evidence, so that the college is not disinherited.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Oxford, [Oxfordshire]; London.
People mentioned: Edmund Franceys (Francis), citizen of London.
Note: This petition is edited in Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.69a (no.1), among petitions from the parliament held at Westminster at the quinzaine of Easter 2 Richard II (1379); however, a note on the guard dates it to '? 1384 cf. seq'. The subsequent writ, dated to 1385, mentions that this petition was presented at the last parliament at Westminster, which must be that of November 1384.CCR 1377-81 p.450 is dated at Westminster, 12 May 1381.CCR 1381-5 p.379 is dated at Salisbury, 22 May 1384.Oxford Petitions, pp. 145-146 dates this petition to 1379.
Date: [1384]
Related material:

Another petition by the same petitioners is SC 8/341/16063

Another petition by the same petitioners is SC 8/340/16034

Another petition by the same petitioners is SC 8/132/6590

For a later petition by the same petitioners is SC 8/20/978

A writ occasioned by this petition is SC 8/19/915C

A writ occasioned by this petition is SC 8/19/915B

For transcript, see no.55 of PRO 31/7/108
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 6329
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.450 (request to sheriff of Oxford and to mayor bailiffs, coroners and burgess of town to see that there is no prejudice to University College in pleas between it and others concerning lands in Oxford)

Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.379 (order to justices of the Bench to stay proceedings in an inquisition between Edmund Franceys and University College)

Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp. 145-146 (no.101) (calendar of petition)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.69a (no.1) (full edition of original petition)

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