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? No Petitioner named Writ of diem clausit extremum addressed to the escheator, and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/356B

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Reference
SC 8/8/356B
Date
[1325]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of diem clausit extremum addressed to the escheator, and the subsequent inquisition, which finds that John de Thorp held half the manor of Combs in Suffolk of the king in chief in free socage; and that his heir is his eldest son, Robert de Thorp, who is over thirty years of age.
Nature of endorsement
Inquisition examined by Henry de Edenestowe and master Adam de Ayremynne (on face).Coram rege (on dorse).This petition is to be delivered to the chancellor, and when the kings' serjeants and those of the council who seem necessary have been called before him, he is to do what is necessary according to law and reason (on dorse).
Places mentioned
Combs, Suffolk
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England
John de Blunvyle, king's escheator in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Essex and Hertfordshire
John de Thorp
William Aleyn
Edward de Boytun
Robert de Thorp
Henry de Edenestowe
master Adam de Ayremynne
Note
The writ is dated to 1325 with the petition with which it was enclosed (SC 8/8/355). The writ is dated at Westminster, 20 May in the seventeenth year of the king's reign - 1324 - and the inquisition was held on 26 May in the same year. John de Thorp died on 16 May in the same year.
Related material

A transcript of related certification of the exchequer is SC 8/8/356A

A related petition is SC 8/8/355

For a related petition see SC 8/166/8297

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.420a, no.12 (full edition of a later copy of the original document)
  • 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. 12 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060480/

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