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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Wake, lord of Lydel. Wake Thomas King. Thomas Wake requests that the king...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/358
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/8/358
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1324-1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Wake, lord of Lydel.
- Name(s)
- Wake, Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Thomas Wake requests that the king command his Justice of the Forest north of the Trent to deliver to him his wood of Farndale, which he has seized into the king's hand for no reason. He also asks him to order the burgesses of Hull not to build any new road on his land, and to destroy the roads they made when he was under age, as the king is obliged to render him his inheritance in full.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.With regard to the wood, the Justice of the Forest is to be ordered to do justice to him, according to the law and usage of the forest.With regard to the roads, he is to have recourse to common law.
- Places mentioned
- Farndale, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Justice of the Forest north of the Trent
- Burgesses of Hull.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Date given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. 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.
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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 8806
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.420b, no.15 (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060482/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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