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Robert de Clifton. de Clifton Robert King and council. Robert de Clifton states that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/339
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/7/339
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1325-1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Clifton.
- Name(s)
- de Clifton, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Robert de Clifton states that the keepers of Nottingham castle have dug two trenches in his meadows at Wilford, and built four gorces between his lands and the river Trent there, by which the river has been diverted out of its course, and passes through his meadows and pastures to the king's mills belonging to the castle. Because of this his lands are flooded, the keepers dig and take peat there to improve and support these gorces, and the vill of Wilford, which is in Robert's demesne, is at risk of being washed away. He has damages of ten pounds, formerly fifteen pounds, annually, but the king has a profit of twenty pounds annually from the four mills, which he would lose if the trenches were filled in, as was found by an inquisition before Richard de Whatton and Richard de Willoughby by commission of Chancery, which was returned in Chancery and of which the tenor is attached to this petition. He requests an allowance for his damages, and, in compensation, the bailiwick of the honour of Peveril, in the counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because this touches the king so personally and because the said inquisition was only held ex officio, let certain great men of the king's council be appointed to examine and enquire into the matter, and to inform the king.
- Places mentioned
- Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire]
- Wilford, [Nottinghamshire]
- Lewe de Trente (River Trent)
- Peveril, [Derbyshire].
- People mentioned
- King's keepers of Nottingham castle
- Richard de Whatton
- Richard de Wilughby (Willoughby).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1325 on the guard of the petition, on the evidence of Rot. Parl., CIM 1307-49 p.210 (no. 840) and CCR 1327-1330, p.83 given at Westminster, March 10, 1327. The commission in CIM 1307-49 p.210 (no. 840) is dated at Nottingham, 12 December 18 Edward II (1324), and the inquisition was taken on the Tuesday after St Hilary (January 1325). This would appear to be the inquisition mentioned in the petition, although no mention is made in CIM 1307-49 p.210 (no. 840) of the value of any likely losses to the king of the profit from his mills.
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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 1725
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp. 83-84 (order to allow £35 to Robert de Clifton, in his debts in the exchequer, for damages: as the result of another petition on the same subject)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.210 (no.840) (commission to inquire into this matter, and the resulting inquisition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.416b-417a, no. 3 (full edition of a later copy of the 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. 416-429, no. 3 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060462/
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