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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert le Vavassour. Vavassour Robert King and council. He states that 100 sheep...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/235
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/5/235
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1321-1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert le Vavassour.
- Name(s)
- Vavassour, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- He states that 100 sheep of his were taken and driven out of his manor of Fryston to the king's manor of Thorne, within the honour of Pontefract, by Thomas de la Hay, on the pretext that they were being seized for the king's use, and from there were driven to the south by the same Thomas for his own benefit; with the exception of sixty of the most valuable sheep, which remained at Thorne as the king's chattels, in the keeping of Thomas de Eyvill, on the pretext that they had been seized for the king's use. He requests that he may be able to recover these sixty sheep and have delivery of them.
- Nature of endorsement
- Thomas de Eyvill is to be ordered that if it can be established that this is the case, the sheep are to be delivered to him, if he can reasonably prove etc. If necessary, there is to be an enquiry into the truth.
- Places mentioned
- Fryston, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Thirne (Thorne), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Pounfreyt (Pontefract), [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas de la Hay
- Thomas de Eyvill, steward of Pontefract.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323). CCR 1318-1323, p.639 confirms that Robert le Vavassour was dead by April 3 1323.
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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 8326
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.396b, no.53 (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. 53 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060355/
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