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Adam de Everyngham (Everingham). de Everyngham (Everingham) Adam King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/82

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Reference
SC 8/2/82
Date
[1315]
Description
Petitioners
Adam de Everyngham (Everingham).
Name(s)
de Everyngham (Everingham), Adam
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Everyngham requests that the king view and examine the record of William de Vescy concerning the bailiwick of the forest of Sherwood, and will give him remedy so that he is not disinherited of the bailiwick. Everyngham had petitioned in parliament that the king would grant him restoration of the bailiwick which William de Vescy and the other justices in Eyre at Nottingham of the pleas of the forest of Sherwood took into the hands of the late king. In response to the petition, the king ordered by a writ of Chancery to the treasurer and chamberlains to search the rolls of the eyre of Vescy, and certify the king why the bailiwick was taken into the king's hands.
Nature of endorsement
The record should be brought into the presence of the chancellor and remedy be made to Everyngham.
Places mentioned
Sherwood forest, [Nottinghamshire]
Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned
William de Vescy, justice in Eyre.
Note
The petition is dated to 1315 by reference to the title in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.314, noting these to be for the parliament held at Westminster in the octave of Hillary, 8 Edw.II.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/202/10073

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2963
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.314b (no. 106) (Latin summary of related 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), parliament of January 1315, no. 127 (Latin summary of related petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060195/

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