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? petitioner name(s) illegible Letters patent, dated at York, May 18, in the fifteenth...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/341

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Reference
SC 8/7/341
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
? petitioner name(s) illegible
Nature of request
Letters patent, dated at York, May 18, in the fifteenth year of the king's reign, reinstating Nicholas de Hungerford in the keepership of the forest of Duffield granted to him by Blanche Queen of Navarre and confirmed by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, from which he has been expelled, and concerning which he has petitioned the king.
Nature of endorsement
Because it is established before the council that Nicholas was removed from that office when the lord king was in those parts, therefore coram rege.
Places mentioned
Duffield forest, [Derbyshire]
Eboracum (York)
People mentioned
Edward II, king of England
Nicholas de Hungerford
Blanche, queen of Navarre
Edmund [Crouchback], earl of Leicester and Derby
Thomas [of Lancaster], earl of Lancaster.
Note
The letters are dated to 1324-1325 on the basis of the dating of the petition with which the letters were enclosed (SC 8/7/340). The letters themselves are dated at York, May 18 in the fifteenth year of the king's reign (1322), as is CCR 1318-1323, p.449.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/7/340

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

For a letter to Roger Belers, duplicating this letter see SC 8/7/342

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4111
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
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 the original document, with a different endorsement)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060464/

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