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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter de Beysun. de Beysun Walter King Beysun shows that his ancestors were seised...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/87
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This record is about the Walter de Beysun. de Beysun Walter King Beysun shows that his ancestors were seised... dating from [1305] 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 8/2/87
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Beysun.
- Name(s)
- de Beysun, Walter
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- Beysun shows that his ancestors were seised of the manor of Church Eaton with woods and heaths pertaining. Because of a series of lengthy minorities the manor came into the king's hand, and the foresters of Gaule are now administering the woods and heath so that Beysun has nothing from them. He requests that the king grant an inquest of which woods and heath Adam de Beysun died seised, and what it is found that he died seised of the petitioner be able to enjoy.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) Let it be done by a writ of Chancery to the escheator that in his own person he should enquire of the contents of the petition and certify the king.
- Places mentioned
- Eton on Watling Street (Church Eaton), Staffordshire
- Forest of Gaule (Gailey), [Staffordshire].
- People mentioned
- Adam de Beysun, great-grandfather of the petitioner
- Adam [de Beysun], grandfather of the petitioner
- Robert [de Beysun], father of the petitioner.
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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 782
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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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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.91 (no. 154) (Latin summary of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.319a-b (no.136) (Latin summary of a later petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060200/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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