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Eleanor de Percy. de Percy Eleanor King and council. Percy asks for a reduction of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/92

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Reference
SC 8/2/92
Date
[1321]
Description
Petitioners
Eleanor de Percy.
Name(s)
de Percy, Eleanor
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Percy asks for a reduction of the farm of the lease of her son's inheritance in Yorkshire that she owes for the time that she held it because of the destruction wrought by the Scots. She held the farm rendering £400 a year, but after only 2 years of the term the Scots entered the county and pillaged her lands, robbing her tenants, and taking their goods away, and on one occasion they killed nearly all the tenants of 7 of the best vills. Subsequently she has not been able to levy much money from the lands to pay the farm, and by a bill/petition at York requested that she be discharged of the tenancy and it be given to her son at the true value which was granted. A commission of Chancery valued the lands at £248 5s. 9d. qu..1)
Nature of endorsement
There is to be a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that they advise him, and report to him their advice.2) Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Yorkshire
Everwyk (York)
Pokelington (Pocklington), [East Riding of Yorkshire].
Note
The petition seems to date to 1321 when a writ was issued to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to discharge Percy of £100 of the arrears on the farm (CCR 1318-23, p. 390).
Related material

For a petition on a similar matter by the same petitioner see SC 8/2/93

For another petition by the petitioner on this matter, see SC 8/87/4303

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6447
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.390 (writ concerning the discharge of some of the farm)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.326b (no. 187) (Latin summary of related petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060205/

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