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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Ermina de Seton, widow of John de Seton. de Seton Ermina King and council. Seton...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/57
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/2/57
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ermina de Seton, widow of John de Seton.
- Name(s)
- de Seton, Ermina
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Seton states that when she brought a writ of Dower against John Bard of Butterwick for tenements in East Lutton which John de Seton her late husband was seised of on the day of their marriage, which tenements he afterwards enfeoffed John Bard, when she brought the writ against Bard demanding a third part of his tofts, 1 carucate, 1 bovate and 1 acre of land and 18s. of rent with their appurtenances in East Lutton, he vouched to warranty Christopher de Seton, son and heir of John de Seaton who afterwards made default after default by which it was awarded that John Bard held the same in peace, and Seton have to the value of her demands from the lands of Christopher de Seton. But before this, shortly after the award had been made, and before Seton could have her seisin, the lands came into the hands of the king by Christopher de Seton's forfeiture, because of which she has nothing for her dower. She requests remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should sue by a writ to bring the record before Lord Roger de Brabazon at Easter in a month.
- Places mentioned
- East Lutton, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Butterwick, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- John Bard of Butterwick
- Christopher de Seton son of John de Seton
- Roger de Brabazon.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1307 based on the dating of Rot. Parl., vol I, p.192, the dating of the memoranda roll being for the parliament at Carlisle on Wednesday in the Octave of St Hillary, 35 Edw. I.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 7215
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.465 (another document relating to the dower)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp. 206a-b (no. 80) (Latin transcription of petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no. 102 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060169/
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