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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Shirewode (Sherwood). de Shirewode (Sherwood) William King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/144
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/3/144
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Shirewode (Sherwood).
- Name(s)
- de Shirewode (Sherwood), William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Shirewode requests remedy concerning lands that he was disseised of by William de Carlisle, and for which he arrayed an assize of novel disseisin, but which lands were forfeited to the king by Carlisle before judgement. The lands were subsequently granted to the Montagues. He requests that the king grant a writ to his justices to have regard to the tortuous seisin, and not to hear a writ of Elizabeth de Montague concerning the assize, and that they are not to allow hasty judgement to be given.
- Nature of endorsement
- The justices before whom the assize was taken are ordered by a writ, that following the law and custom of the kingdom they should proceed to judgement. And if there are difficulties wherefore they are unable to proceed to rendering judgement then they should send the record and process thence produced before the king at a certain day, and adjourn the parties to the same place.
- Places mentioned
- Saxlingham Nethergate, [Norfolk]
- Saxlingham Thorpe, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- Simon de Goseford
- William de Kardoil (Carlisle)
- John de Mitford, justice of assize in Norfolk
- William de Montagu (Montague)
- Elizabeth [de Montagu (Montague)], wife of William de Montagu.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1320 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.365 for the parliament held on Monday in the octave of St Michael, 14 Edward II.
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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 7241
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.281-2 (writ to the justices to proceed with Shirewode's assize); p.342 (acknowledgement of debt by Shirewode to Montague)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp.11, 22, 247 (grants to the Montagues of the Carlisle lands)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.376a (no.46) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060264/
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