Catalogue description Petitioners: Robert de Ledes, the king's poor tenant of Skipton. Name(s): de...

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Details of SC 8/57/2821
Reference: SC 8/57/2821
Description:
Petitioners: Robert de Ledes, the king's poor tenant of Skipton.
Name(s): de Ledes, Robert
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The petitioner seeks assurance that he should not pay part of a debt that would reduce him to beggary and mendicancy forever. He shows that Clifford ordered by his bailiffs in Skipton Castle an acknowledgement by writing that the petitioner bought the garbel tithes of Gargrave, Eshton and Flasby, from Adam de Ayrminne for ... paid at Michaelmas lately past, which writing he sealed together with Richard and Adam Faunell ... the guarantors and principal debtors through the severity of their lordship and their malice by which the said Adam de Ayrminne [...] the petitioner from the said debt.
Nature of endorsement: Let him defend himself through the law of the land.
Places mentioned: Skipton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Gargrave, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Eshton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Flasby, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned: [Roger de Clifford], late Lord of Skipton Castle; Adam de Ayrminne; Richard Faunell; Adam Faunell.
Note: Datable, by internal reference, to the period after seizure of the lands of Clifford following the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322.
Date: [c. 1322]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 5348
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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