Catalogue description Petitioners: Robert Leukenore (Lewknor), John Bartelot (Bartlet), Robert atte Lee...

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Details of SC 8/299/14950
Reference: SC 8/299/14950
Description:
Petitioners: Robert Leukenore (Lewknor), John Bartelot (Bartlet), Robert atte Lee (Attlee), Richard Batford, John Batford, and the entire community of Pulborough, Stopham, Fittleworth, Bury and Petworth, tenants of the Duke of Exeter.
Name(s): Leukenore (Lewknor); Bartelot (Bartlet); Lee (Attlee); Batford; Batford, Robert; John; Robert; Richard; John
Addressees: Bishop of Exeter, Chancellor of England.
Nature of request: The petitioners state that their used to be a ferry between the hamlets of Pulborough and Stopham, with certain charges for those crossing, until, twenty-eight years ago, Edward St John built a wooden bridge there, to the great benefit of the community and all others passing that way. This bridge is now ruined and dangerous, and they ask for letters patent reviving the old tolls for the ferry, for a period of twelve years, to be paid to the people named above for the rebuilding of the bridge.
Nature of endorsement: [On face] Mei per manus.[None]
Places mentioned: Pulborough, [Sussex]; Stopham, [Sussex]; Fittleworth, [Sussex]; Bury, [Sussex]; Petworth, [Sussex].
People mentioned: [Edmund Stafford], Bishop of Exeter, Chancellor of England; [John de Holand], Duke of Exeter; Edward Seintjohan (St John), knight.
Note: CPR 1396-9 p.577 is dated 18 June 1399, and would seem to be in response to this petition.
Date: [1399]
Related material:

For a duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/299/14936
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.577 (grant to the good men of Pulborough, Stopham, Fittleworth, Bury and Petworth of pontage for two years, in order to repair their bridge)

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