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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger de Marchinton and his companions; People of the vill of Ashbourne. de Marchinton...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/309
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/7/309
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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
- Roger de Marchinton and his companions; People of the vill of Ashbourne.
- Name(s)
- de Marchinton, Roger
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Roger de Marchinton and his companions state that Thomas earl of Lancaster arrented the vill of Ashbourne to them for a term of ten years, paying a certain sum at two terms annually, but, because the years were bad and there was a plague of cattle, they could not pay this, and were forced to sell their lands and tenements to do so, and then they begged the earl of Lancaster to discharge them from their payment and arrears for the rest of their term. This he did last Martinmas, and instructed his receivers by letter to that effect. The receivers asked them to collect toll in Ashbourne until they had appointed other farmers, and until the defeat of the earl of Lancaster they did this, paying what they received to certain people appointed by the receivers. But now William de Trehampton distrains them for debts paid to the earl of Lancaster before his fall, for their farm - from which they have been discharged, and other bailiffs appointed by Ralph Bassett at the king's command - and for fifteen pounds which these bailiffs received for the king's use. They request that they be discharged of the farm and receipts, as they were before by the earl.
- Nature of endorsement
- Roger Beller, keeper of the [rebels'] lands in those parts is to be ordered to enquire into the matters contained in this petition, and to inform the king in Chancery; and justice is to be done. And in the meantime Roger is to surcease from the demands on them etc.
- Places mentioned
- Assheburn (Ashbourne), [Derbyshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster
- Receivers of Thomas, earl of Lancaster
- William de Trehampton
- Ralph Basset
- Roger Beler (Beller).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1322 because it is clearly in the aftermath of the failed baronial revolt as the petition refers to Thomas of Lancaster, and the forfeiture of his estates.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 5933
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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), pp.409a-b, no. 132 (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. 132 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060431/
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