Catalogue description Petitioners: John de Isdle (Lisle) of Burley. Name(s): de Isdle (Lisle), John ...

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Details of SC 8/247/12341
Reference: SC 8/247/12341
Description:
Petitioners: John de Isdle (Lisle) of Burley.
Name(s): de Isdle (Lisle), John
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: [Petition in 3 parts:]1) Isdle requests the king pay money due to him for the expenses that he has made over 8 years in the duchy of Guyenne as mayor and keeper of Bordeaux, as he is on the point of ruin without recovery.2) He requests remedy concerning the malicious and wrongful suit of the abbot and monks of Westminster for his manor of Moulsham.3) He requests remedy concerning the costs that he has incurred in an assize for the manor of Kislingbury which was entered by his nephew who believed him dead by his long absence.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Guyenne, [France]; Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]; Moulsham, [Essex]; Kislingbury, [Northamptonshire]; Burley, [Rutland].
People mentioned: Abbot of Westminster; Gerald de Isdle (Lisle), nephew of the petitioner.
Note: The petition is dated to 1341 on the basis of the dated '15 Edw. 3' printed on the guard.
Date: [1341]
Related material:

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/289/14427

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/311/15572

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/14/686

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/14/685

For a related document, see no. 15921 in C 81/295

For the letter of the secret seal with which this petition was formerly enclosed see no.60 in C 81/1330
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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