Description

Petitioners:

Richard de Weston; Rose de Weston, wife of Richard de Weston.

Name(s):

de Weston; de Weston, Richard; Rose

Addressees:

Council.

Nature of request:

Richard and Rose de Weston request that whereas they have sued two writs of error against Farndon before Bealknap and other justices at St Martin-le-Grand in London to redress certain errors contained in two records returned with the wrong judgment in the Hustings of London, by which they were wrongly foreclosed from certain tenements, and the mayor and aldermen of London claim by force of their franchise to have remanded the records into the Hustings, that the justices be ordered to appear before the council to discuss this case and determine whether the franchise is allowable or not, and if it is not allowable that the justices proceed in their judgment and do justice to the petitioners.

Nature of endorsement:

The matter of the claim made by those of London before the said justices of the franchise of London was discussed and declared by the prelates, lords and justices in parliament and it was agreed that the justices should proceed in the pleas before them to the final judgment.

Places mentioned:

London.

People mentioned:

Thomas de Farndon; Robert Bealknap, justice.

Date derivation:

Dated on the guard to c. 1377, with reference to CPR 1377-81, p. 88, a 1377 commission to examine and correct the records of the Hustings in accordance with this petition.

Date

1377

Catalogue reference

SC 8/215/10738links to the Catalogue

Dept

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

Series

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

Piece

10707-10750. Individual petitions are described and dated at Item level.

Image contains

1 item for the catalogue reference

 

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