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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
SC 8/5/211
Date
[1322]
Description
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.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7034
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), 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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060331/

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