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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Executors of the testament of John de Rolleston. King and council. The executors...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/334
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/7/334
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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
- Executors of the testament of John de Rolleston.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The executors of the testament of John de Rolleston state that John died without rendering his account, and that Richard de Lustreshull, who was appointed by the king, received the account from them: so that the king owed them one hundred and eighty pounds, sixteen shillings and ten pence. However, Richard and brother Walter de Assherugges took and carried off goods and chattels worth forty pounds, of which the executors should have had administration - for the king's use, they said. The executors have not been able to have administration of them, to the peril of John's soul, and in danger of disinheritance of his heir, and they have been and are impleaded and harassed on this account. They request aid and a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- Those who seized the goods and chattels are to be ordered etc., and they are to inform the king about how and why they were seized and withheld, and what is rightly to be done is to be done etc.
- Places mentioned
- Scardeburgh (Scarborough), [North Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Rolleston formerly keeper of the town and castle of Scarborough
- Richard de Lustreshull
- Brother Walter de Assherugges (Ashridge).
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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 7033
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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.415a, no. 162 (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. 162 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060457/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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