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Robert de Walkefare. de Walkefare Robert King and council. Walkefare requests remedy...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/85

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Reference
SC 8/2/85
Date
[c. 1330]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Walkefare.
Name(s)
de Walkefare, Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Walkefare requests remedy for he holds the manor of Isleham which had view of Frankpledge from time out of memory until the king's bailiff of the hundred of Staploe usurped the view, and enticed the people to the Hundred Court when they should have come to the view.
Nature of endorsement
Walkefare is to declare at what time he or his ancestors were previously seised of the view, and by whom, and in which king's reign they were ousted, and how, and in what manner.
Places mentioned
Isleham, [Cambridgeshire]
Staploe hundred, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned
Bailiff of the Hundred of Staploe.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1330, based on the dating from the guard. The petition is likely to be late 1320s. Walkefare was one of the rebels whose estates were seized in the aftermath of Thomas de Lancaster's revolt, and parts of Isleham were in the king's hands subsequently and were granted away. Walkefare was back in possession by 1330, as is shown by a licence to enclose some land in Isleham granted to him on 5 December 1300 (CPR 1330-4 p.21). The endorsement to this petition suggests that the more detailed SC 8/150/7481 may well be a follow-up petition clarifying his request.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on this matter, see SC 8/150/7481

For another petition by the same petitioner concerning Isleham, see SC 8/160/7977

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8877
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.318a (no. 127) (Latin summary of an earlier petition on the same subject)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060198/

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