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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster. Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster Thomas King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/71
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This record is about the Thomas of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster. Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster Thomas King... dating from [1315] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/2/71
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster.
- Name(s)
- Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The earl shows that whereas by the death of John de Metham who held the manor of Pollington by knight service he was seised of the manor by the minority of Thomas son and heir of the John de Metham, which seisin he enjoyed for a year and a half until Richard Squire by a commission which he had of the king for the seizure of the lands that were Robert de Stiveton on the day that he killed Hugh Scot in York, and deprived the earl of the manor of Pollington, and still retains it. The earl requests that the manor be returned together with the issues, and to hold the same until the heir is of age as John de Metham held nothing of the king in chief on the day of his death.
- Nature of endorsement
- Whereas the chancellor remembers that Ralph son of William and other faithful people of the king were lately assigned to enquire upon certain things pertaining to the petition; and it is ordered that Ralph send the record and process of his actions. When this has been sent coram rege he will provide full justice to the complaints contained within this petition. And in addition Richard Squire is ordered to be before the council of the king at Westminster on 25 June to inform the king and his council of his actions and the cause of the taking of the same into the king's hand, and on the contents of the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Pollington, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Everwyk (York).
- People mentioned
- John de Metham
- Thomas [de Metham] son and heir of John de Metham
- Richard Squier (Squire)
- Robert de Stiveton
- Henry Scot
- Ralph son of William.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition can be dated fairly closely to 1315 by the title contained in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.289 which notes this as being 'Responses made in the presence of the king and his great council in the parliament of the king after the Octave of St Hillary, in the 8th year'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/124/6182
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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 5393
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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 II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.310 (commission of oyer and terminer)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.304b (no. 65) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll) & p.304b (no. 66) (related petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060184/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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