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? No Petitioner named Letters patent, dated at York, May 18, in the fifteenth year...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/344

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letters patent, dated at York, May 18, in the fifteenth year... dating from [1324-1325] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/7/344
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
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
He is to come to chancery and show the evidence he has for the keepership, and by whom and why he was expelled; and the king is to be informed.
Places mentioned
Duffield forest, [Derbyshire]
Eboracum (York).
People mentioned
Nicholas de Hungerford
Blanche, queen of Navarre
Edmund [Crouchback], earl of Lancaster
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 8/7/343). 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 near duplicate of these letters patent, deifferently endorsed, see SC 8/7/344

For a related petition see SC 8/7/340

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 4070
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)
  • 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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060467/

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