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Henry de Ferrers. de Ferrers Henry King and council. Henry de Ferrers states that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/379
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/8/379
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Henry de Ferrers.
- Name(s)
- de Ferrers, Henry
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Henry de Ferrers states that his grandfather, William de Ferrers, leased eleven acres of waste in Shepshed to Lady Helen la Souch, paying 36 shillings annually, and died seised of this rent; and furthermore that his son, William de Ferrers, was seised of it during the times of Lady Helen, of her son Alan, and of Robert de Hoylaunde and his wife Maud, one of Alan's daughters and heirs, until Robert was forfeited. Through this forfeiture the waste is in the king's hand, and the rent has been in arrears since then. Henry requests that he might have this rent
- Nature of endorsement
- Faithful people are to be appointed in Chancery to enquire into the truth of the contents of the petition etc., in the presence of the keeper etc.; and, when the inquisition has been returned in Chancery, if it is found to be true, the keepers of the manor are to be ordered to pay him the rent from the issues of the waste etc.
- Places mentioned
- Shepesheved (Shepshed), [Leicestershire].
- People mentioned
- William de Ferrers, grandfather of petitioner
- Helen la Souch (Zouche)
- William de Ferrers, son of William de Ferrers
- Alan la 3ousche (Zouche), son of Helen la Zouche
- Robert de Hoylaunde (Holand)
- Maud [de Hoylaunde (Holand)], wife of Robert de Holand.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The date is written on the guard of the petition, on the basis of CIM 1307-49 pp.220-221 (no.884), where the commission is dated 15 July, 19 Edward II (1325), and the inquisition to the Thursday after the Nativity of St Mary (September 1325). This inquisition was presumably the result of 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 3464
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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 Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), pp.220-221 (no.884) (inquisition into Henry de Ferrers estate in Shepshed)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.426a, no.38 (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
- 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. 38 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060503/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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