Description

Petitioners:

John de Styvecle.

Name(s):

de Styvecle, John

Addressees:

King and lords of parliament.

Nature of request:

John de Styvecle states that he and others purchased from King Richard certain lands and tenements for a term of years, which had been forfeited by Robert Belknap; and that he was then expelled from most of them by Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, who had the lands at farm, so that he received little profit from them. Then, in the late King's twenty-first year, Robert was restored to the lands. He has since sued, so far unsuccessfully, to recover the sum he paid for the lands. He asks that it might be ordained in the present parliament that he and the others who purchased these lands might be able to have and enjoy them, or otherwise that they might be repaid with a certain time, less the sum that they received from the lands.

Nature of endorsement:

[None]

People mentioned:

Richard [II], King of England; Robert Belknap (Bealknap); Thomas [of Woodstock], Duke of Gloucester.

Date derivation:

This petition would seem to date from the early years of Henry IV's reign.

Date

1399

Catalogue reference

SC 8/142/7056links to the Catalogue

Dept

Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly entitled Special Collections

Series

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

Piece

7051-7100. Individual petitions are described and dated at Item level.

Image contains

1 item for the catalogue reference

 

Number of image files: 1