Description

Petitioners:

Henry Ilcombe, knight.

Name(s):

Ilcombe, Henry

Addressees:

King and lords of parliament.

Nature of request:

Henry Ilcombe states that he held the marriage of the heir of William [FitzWalter], by gift of John Cergeaux, to whom that marriage belongs, but that he has lost it by means of an erroneous judgment of Robert Bealknap, at the procurement of John Blake, as the record and process of the judgment shows. He states that this judgment was given in the absence of the Chancellor, and asks that the Chancellor be ordered to bring the judgment before the King in the present parliament or in King's Bench, and that the errors might be corrected so that he might have justice. He also requests that the Chancellor cease execution of the judgment in the meantime.

Nature of endorsement:

[None]

People mentioned:

William [FitzWalter]; John Cergeaux; Robert Bealknap; John Blake.

Date derivation:

Tentatively dated to c. 1385, with reference to SC 8/222/11094. Robert Bealknap was Chief Justice of Common Pleas 1374-1388. FitzWalter's name can be supplied from the duplicate.

Date

1385

Catalogue reference

SC 8/199/9903links to the Catalogue

Dept

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

Series

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

Piece

9901-9950. Individual petitions are described and dated at Item level.

Image contains

1 item for the catalogue reference

 

Number of image files: 2