Catalogue description Petitioners: John Cavendish, citizen of London. Name(s): Cavendish, John ...

Ordering and viewing options

  • Free

  • Download format PDF
  • Approximate size 1 MB

Order up to 10 items per basket, and up to 100 in a 30 day period.

Details of SC 8/101/5047
Reference: SC 8/101/5047
Description:
Petitioners: John Cavendish, citizen of London.
Name(s): Cavendish, John
Addressees: King and Council.
Nature of request: The petitioner asks the present parliament to have brought there the record and process of a certain plea of the petitioner (with all things concerning the same) to correct certain legal errors therein, stating that in the record and process and in the award of judgement of the plea in chancery before Michael de la Pole, between the petitioner and Manfeld, Paris, Haukyn and Horsman, upon a bill lately delivered to the king and council by the petitioner in the parliament at Westminster in year seven [1383-4], the bill was endorsed and ordered in chancery by the decision of parliament to have an open discussion there between the parties of the legal mistake plain to see by the aforesaid record.
Nature of endorsement: [None.]
Places mentioned: London; Westminster.
People mentioned: Michael de la Pole, knight, lately chancellor; Gilbert Manfeld (Magfeld), merchant; Robert Paris, merchant; John Haukyn, mariner; Thomas Horsman, mariner.
Note: Note on guard relate this to c. 1384 on internal evidence and an incidental reference to the petitioner in CPR 1381-5, p.428.
Date: [c. 1384]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/214/10706

For a related petition see SC 8/214/10692

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/84/4191

For transcript, see no.44 of PRO 31/7/109

For a related petition from Manfeld and his colleagues see SC 8/125/6221
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1955
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Image viewer

Preview a low-resolution image of this record.

Subject image
Thumb item {{thumb.id}}
Image   of {{thumbImages.length}}
Loading image ...

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research