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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Melbourne and King's Newton. King and council. The people of Melbourne...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/366
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This record is about the People of Melbourne and King's Newton. King and council. The people of Melbourne... dating from [1324-1325] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/8/366
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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
- People of Melbourne and King's Newton.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people of Melbourne and King's Newton, tenants of the manor of Melbourne, which is of the king's ancient demesne, state that they and their ancestors have from time immemorial taken a certain amount of wood each year in the forest of Melbourne, for fuel, and they were never prevented from doing this or their estate changed until the manor came into the king's hand after the forfeiture of the earl of Lancaster. The tenants therefore petitioned the last parliament, at Westminster, and an inquisition was ordered, returned in Chancery before Pentecost a year ago, which found that they did have this wood as they said. As a result of another petition to the king's council, they had a writ to the keeper of the lands to let them have the wood as they had it in the earl of Lancaster's time, but because this writ was not founded on the inquisition, he would not do this. They request a writ founded on the inquisition, and as the law of the land demands in such a case.
- Nature of endorsement
- The inquisition is to be examined in Chancery, and justice is to be done to them according to the form of the inquisition.
- Places mentioned
- Meleborne (Melbourne), [Derbyshire]
- Neuton (King's Newton), [Derbyshire].
- People mentioned
- [Thomas of Lancaster], earl of Lancaster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1323-1327, p.225 is dated at Byfleet, 1324 October 8. The parliament referred to in the petition is presumably the one at Westminster in February 1324. PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 416-429, no. 25 states that 'the attached writ for the inquisition, which followed, is dated 18 March 1324'. This inquisition, is probably the one mentioned in the petition.
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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 5807
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.225 (writ to the keeper ordering him to allow them to receive the wood - presumably the writ mentioned above.)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.423b, no.25 (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. 25 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060490/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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