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Thomas de la Moriley son of Thomas de la Moriley. Moriley Thomas King. Moriley requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/24

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Reference
SC 8/1/24
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas de la Moriley son of Thomas de la Moriley.
Name(s)
Moriley, Thomas
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Moriley requests his lands in the vills of Ellenborough, Little Broughton, Gutterby and Picket How in Cumberland which are in the king's hands because Thomas de la Moriley father of the petitioner, whose heir he is, was against the king in the first Scottish war, and came during that war into the king's peace, and remained in the same for his life, and died in the king's fealty. Moriley states that he is of full age and holds nothing in chief from the king.
Nature of endorsement
In the presence of the council. It is to be inquired by a writ of the Chancery of the manner and cause of the taking of the land into the hand of the king, and of other circumstances etc., and if the petitioner was always in the peace of the king or not. And the king is to be informed upon this etc.
Places mentioned
Alneburgh (Ellenborough), Cumberland
Petit Brouthton (Little Broughton), Cumberland
Godrykby (Gutterby), Cumberland
Pykhou (Picket How), Cumberland
Cumberland.
People mentioned
Thomas de la Moriley, father of the petitioner.
Note
The petition is dated to 1305 based on the date from Rot. Parl., vol I, p.159.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5409
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp. 56-7 (no.92) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), p.128 (no.94) (full edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.162a (no.23) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060136/

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