Catalogue description Petitioners: John Hoton. Name(s): Hoton, John Addressees: King. Nature...

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Details of SC 8/341/16083
Reference: SC 8/341/16083
Description:
Petitioners: John Hoton.
Name(s): Hoton, John
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: [This petition is fragmentary] To the most excellent, most . . . our most sovereign lord . . . your poor liege, John Hoton, humbly requests that, whereas . . . plaintiff on the one side and John Schakel who is dead and afterwards Thomas . . . judgment was given for the said petitioner's party in your said . . . by the party of the said Thomas Stokes, executor, and one John Wroth, knight . . . with the principal, which judges, by their legal process in this matter pronounce . . . the said defendant to your royal audience [and] judges by your commission and . . . who have proceeded in it to various judicial acts, wishing to do justice to the [parties] . . . but they will not be able to proceed further, or to put an end to the said case, according to what . . . frivolous delays made by the said defendant to delay the said case . . . such delays are not checked by you. May it please your royal . . . said case and give a just ending to the aforesaid parties, according to what . . . by the said defendant, considering that the said case has been pending . . . of appeal made by the said defendant for sixteen years, in prejudice . . . this part as you have previously aided him in his great need . . .
Nature of endorsement: [None]
People mentioned: John Schakel (Shakell); Thomas Stokes; John Wroth, knight.
Note: CPR 1391-6 p.318 is dated 4 October 1393: John Shakill was still alive at this point. CPR 1396-9 p.58 and p.83 are both dated 9 December 1396, and p.165 is dated 1 July 1397. This petition is therefore tentatively dated to c. 1396. See also SC 8/162/8069.
Date: [? c. 1396]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/162/8069
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. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.318 (commission and special mandate to hear and determine the appeal of John Shakill against the petitioner concerning the ransom of the Count of Denia)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.58 (commission and special mandate to hear the appeal of John Hoton in this case) & p.83(similar commission and mandate) & p.165 (similar commission and mandate)

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