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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Tenants of the manor of Sowerby; Tenants of the manor of Penrith. King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/65
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/2/65
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1308-1309]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Tenants of the manor of Sowerby; Tenants of the manor of Penrith.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- 1) The tenants show that their manor is ancient demesne of the Crown, and that during all the time that the manor was in the hand of the king of Scotland (by a gift of Henry III king of England) the tenants and their ancestors were accustomed to have housebote and haybote in the woods of the manor by the view of 4 law-worthy men of the manor who will swear an oath to this before the keeper of the manor. The tenants request remedy because Robert de Barton, keeper of the manor does not wish to allow them to have their estovers without a special grant of the king.2) Also they show that all the time that they were in the hand of the king of Scotland each time they were attached for trespass made to the king of Scotland, their lord, they had essoins and other delays. However the current bailiff when he attaches them does not allow them to have delays, rather he makes them answer immediately for which they request remedy.3) Also they show that whereas Alexander III late King of Scotland (son of Alexander II, King of Scotland who received the manor from Henry III King of England), with the agreement of Edward I, King of England father of the current king, approved diverse lands from his waste beyond the manor (the manor lying outside of the forest of Inglewood). These approved lands the tenants held with their ancient lands of the manor, and after the deaths of their ancestors have not been accustomed to making entry fines for them, and only made them for their ancient lands. However the bailiff has not suffered them to have entry to the approved land following the death of an ancestor unless they make a fine both for the approved land and the ancient lands for which they request a remedy. They also request that the king by his writ to assign any of his faithful subjects to enquire of the veracity of these things.4) The tenants of the manor of Penrith show that the manor is also ancient demesne held of the Crown, and that whereas they and their ancestors for the payment of 1 mark per annum during the time the manor was in the hand of the king of Scotland, and before and after that time until the manor lately reverted to the crown, were accustomed to take fallen dry firewood, and pair up and dig turves to burn, and also to take wood felled by the wind for building with within the forest of Inglewood. However the king's ministers of the forest obstruct them so that they have not been able to take these things as they were accustomed to do in the time of other kings. They request that the king order a remedy so that they are not now in a worse condition than they were in the time of other lords. They request that he assign any of his faithful subjects to enquire of the veracity of these things.
- Nature of endorsement
- Concerning the petition of the men of Sowerby some faithful subject of the king whom the chancellor is to provide is to enquire into the contents of the petition in the presence of the bailiff and return the inquisition into Chancery.2) Concerning the petition of the men of Penrith the king orders that the justices of the forest enquire by the oaths of both the foresters and other upright and law-worthy men of the forest into the contents in the petition, and inform the king in Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Sowerby, [Cumberland]
- Englewode (Inglewood), [Cumberland]
- Penrith, [Cumberland].
- People mentioned
- Robert de Barton, keeper of the manor of Sowerby.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1308-1309 by the headings from the Hale MS. in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.273, which makes this 'Petitions in Parliament 2 Edw. II'. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 273-280, no. 33.
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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 7856
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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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- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), pp. 129-30 (writ with reference to Sowerby and Penrith)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp. 279b-280a (no. 33) (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
- 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. I, pp. 273-280, (no. 33) (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060178/
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