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Nicholas de Hungerford. de Hungerford Nicholas King and council. Nicholas de Hungerford...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/340

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Reference
SC 8/7/340
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
Nicholas de Hungerford.
Name(s)
de Hungerford, Nicholas
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Nicholas de Hungerford states that he was given the keepership of the chase of Duffeldfrith by Blanche, Queen of Navarre, for the good service which he did to Edmund, Earl of Lancaster her husband, to hold for life, receiving ten pounds annually, and this was confirmed by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. When Thomas' lands were taken into the king's hand after his death, the king ordered the keeper of the forfeited lands in those parts by writ to allow the keepership to be held as before. Now, however, Nicholas has been expelled from this, and requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Duffeldfrith (Forest of Duffield), [Derbyshire].
People mentioned
Blanche, queen of Navarre
Edmund [Crouchback], earl of Lancaster
Thomas [of Lancaster], earl of Lancaster.
Note
Date apparently given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. vol. I p.418a, no. 4. As this petition quotes the instructions given in CCR 1318-1323, p.449 (dated at York, 18 May 1322) it is clearly later: equally clearly, it is before the death of Edward II. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions probably all do belong to 18 Edward II, although there is no indication that they were presented either at the non-parliamentary assembly of October 1324 or the parliament of June 1325.
Related material

For a near-duplicate of these letters see SC 8/7/344

For related letters see SC 8/7/341

For a related petition see SC 8/200/9993

For a duplicate petition with different endorsement see SC 8/7/343

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3960
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.449 (instructions to Roger Belers, keeper of the rebels' lands in Derbyshire, to deliver the keepership of the forest of Duffeld to Nicholas)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.418a, no. 4 (full edition of a later copy of a duplicate 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. 4 (summary of references)
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