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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Adam Russel of London. Russel Adam. King and council. Adam Russel complains that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/211
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/5/211
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam Russel of London.
- Name(s)
- Russel, Adam .
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Adam Russel complains that he has been wrongly accused of having been attached to some of the king's enemies, and his lands taken into the king's hand, leaving him and his wife and children destitute when, he claims, he was in fact one of the first to come to the king's side at Ongar, and afterwards followed him loyally until he was wounded at Burton-upon-Trent. He requests the king's grace and a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king is to be informed of the reason for the goods being seized, and, if it is insufficient, he is to be released with his goods.
- Places mentioned
- London; (Ongar), [Essex]; Burton-upon-Trent, [Staffordshire]; Scotland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1322 as it is clear from the petitioner's claims that he has suffered as a consequence of an error that saw him as one of the rebels of 1322. The inquisition examining this matter is dated at Alnwick, 9 August 16 Edward II (1322) (CIM 1307-49, p.163). It finds that Adam came to the king at Ongar with horses and arms, and was with the king at Burton-upon-Trent; his lands and goods were taken into the king's hands because his wife was the daughter of John Joce, knight, said to be an adherent of the rebel Bartholomew de Badelesmere.The order of 1322, October 25, at York. to John le Porter, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in Essex, to return Adam Russel's lands and goods to him, upon his finding mainpernors to have him before the king at his pleasure, as the keeper has informed the king that Adam's lands and goods were taken into the king's hands because his wife was the daughter of John Joce (CCR 1318-1323, pp. 602-3).
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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 7034
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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.602-3 (order to John le Porter, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in Essex, to return Adam Russel's lands and goods to him, upon his finding mainpernors to have him before the king at his pleasure)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.163 (no.650) (order to John le Porter, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in Essex, to hold an inquisition into the loyalty of Adam Russel, and the result of that inquisition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.391b, no.23 (full edition of original petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 23 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060331/
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