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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Lavyngton (Laughton), parson of the church of Stainby. de Lavyngton (Laughton)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/6/253
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This record is about the John de Lavyngton (Laughton), parson of the church of Stainby. de Lavyngton (Laughton)... dating from [1321-1322] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/6/253
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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
- John de Lavyngton (Laughton), parson of the church of Stainby.
- Name(s)
- de Lavyngton (Laughton), John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- parson of the church of Stainby
- Nature of request
- John de Lavyngton states that he held the grange of Laughton of the prioress of Stixwould at farm, and that John de Parys, Richard le Forester and others, forty men in all, from Folkingham, entered the manor with force and arms, broke down the doors of the granges, granaries and other buildings, threshed John's corn which they found there, and carried off fifty quarters of corn and malt and twenty-four cart-loads of hay. This caused John to lose eighty sheep which died for lack of that hay to feed them, and cost him damages of a hundred pounds. He requests that the king grant certain justices to hear and determine that trespass.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to have recourse to the common law.
- Places mentioned
- Styandeby (Stainby), [Lincolnshire]
- Stikeswald (Stixwould), [Lincolnshire]
- Lavyngton (Laughton), [Lincolnshire]
- Folkyngham (Folkingham), [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- Prioress of Stixwould
- John de Parys, clerk, Richard le Forester of Folkingham.
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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).
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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 5277
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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.399b, no.70 (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.70 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060373/
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