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? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ of Edward II to his treasurer and barons of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/97

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Reference
SC 8/2/97
Date
[1298]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a writ of Edward II to his treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, whereas the people of the vill of Sevenhampton who were tenants of the countess of Aumale have shown that Nicholas de Pershete, the king's bailiff in the same place demands £4 beyond their rent, which sum they had given of their own will at the request of the countess for the knighting of her son, and on another occasion 20s.. Pershete demands this to the people's great damage, so that they cannot live and will abandon their tenancies which the king does not wish. The treasurer and barons are therefore ordered that they make a good remedy for the people so that they are contented so that their grant at their will to the countess will not become a custom.
Nature of endorsement
The treasurer and barons of the Exchequer are ordered that they view the writ of the king's father under the privy seal to more fully examine its direction and business, and if necessary to enquire of the truth of the same more fully, and do them justice.
Places mentioned
Sevenhampton, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England
[Walter Langton], treasurer
Nicholas Pershete
[Aveline de Forz], countess of Aumale.
Note
The writ is dated to 1315 with the SC 8/2/96, the petition with which it was formerly enclosed. Although the date is included in the writ, the actual year is obscured. However, Edward I, although in Scotland on numerous occasions towards the end of his reign, resided for much of October 1290 at Jedburgh, and at no other time in any of the other years.
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For the petition with which this copy of a writ was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/2/96

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7274
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.329a (no. 203) (Latin edition of the petition to which this copy of a writ was sewn)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060210/

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