Catalogue description Petitioners: John de Usk, Abbot of Chertsey, and the convent of Chertsey. Name(s):...

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Details of SC 8/103/5102
Reference: SC 8/103/5102
Description:
Petitioners: John de Usk, Abbot of Chertsey, and the convent of Chertsey.
Name(s): de Usk, John
Addressees: King and Council.
Occupation: Abbot of Chertsey
Nature of request: The petitioners seek discharge from the great costs of maintaining the highway between Egham and Staines, for which they obtained a supersedeas in the previous parliament until this parliament. They complain that they have discharge from the maintenance of the said highway since the time of King Henry III, as appears fully in various records etc., and even now they are pursued in king's bench by men of the country wishing to perpetually charge them with the maintenance of the said highway etc.
Nature of endorsement: The king of his special grace by the advice of his council in this present parliament, grants a similar supersedeas to the petitioners until the next parliament.
Places mentioned: Chertsey, [Surrey]; Staines, [Surrey]; Egham, [Surrey]; River Thames.
People mentioned: Henry III, King of England; Edward III, King of England.
Note: As this petition indicates, the matter was in discussion over.an extended period and it is not easy to establish the order in which the petitions were presented: see also SC 8/103/5107. A date range of 1391-3 is suggested on the basis of the cross-references in CCR 1389-92, p. 313 and CCR 1392-6, pp. 125-6.
Date: [c. 1391-c. 1393]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/104/5172

For a related petition on the same matter see SC 8/103/5107

For a related petition see SC 8/103/5106

For a related petition see SC 8/39/1916
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 2072
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.313 (writ of supersedeas in relation to this case)

Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), p.125 (similar writ of supersedeas)

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