Gilbert de Aton. de Aton Gilbert King and council. Gilbert de Aton states that he...

Petitioners

Gilbert de Aton.

Name(s)

de Aton, Gilbert

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Gilbert de Aton states that he has recovered the Vescy inheritance in the King's court by process of law, because of which the charters and muniments concerning this inheritance, which are in the keeping of the prior of Malton, should belong to him. He requests a writ to the prior, to deliver these documents to him.

Nature of endorsement

He is to have a writ at common law.

Places mentioned

Malton, [North Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Prior of Malton.

For a related petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/15/705

Another petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/90/4452

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.8 (order to Robert de Sapy, escheator, to supersede delivery of the manor of Malton, which belonged to William de Vescy, to Gilbert de Aton until the next parliament, as the king wishes Joan Comyn, who holds during the king's pleasure, to hold until then) & p.32 (order to Ralph de Crophull, escheator, to give Gilbert de Aton seisin of Malton) & p.65 (order to acquit Gilbert de Aton of debts that the late king pardoned William de Vescy)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), P.435 (licence for Gilbert de Aton to grant to Henry de Percy the reversion of certain manors and lands held in chief after the death of Isabel de Vescy)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.399a-b, no.69 (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.69 (summary of references)