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Walter de Selby. de Selby Walter King. Walter de Selby states that he has delivered...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/394
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/8/394
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1333-1336]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Selby.
- Name(s)
- de Selby, Walter
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Walter de Selby states that he has delivered various writs (a transcript of which is sewn to this petition) to the bishop of Durham and to his predecessor, to deliver to him his lands within the bishop's franchise of Durham; but the bishop has not done anything, because Thomas Surtees holds these lands of the gift of Louis, formerly bishop of Durham, predecessor of the current bishop. He asks the king to consider the fact that he is on his service in Scotland, and to order the bishop to take the lands into his hand and to deliver them to Walter.
- Nature of endorsement
- A writ is to be sent again to the bishop, that he should have the lands delivered according to the other command, or to give the reason why he ought not to do this; and a process is further to be continued.
- Places mentioned
- Liberty of Durham.
- People mentioned
- [Richard de Bury] bishop of Durham
- Louis [de Beaumont], formerly bishop of Durham
- Thomas Surteys (Surtees).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1333-1336 in accordance with the dating given by Fraser. CPR 1330-1334, p.240 is dated at Westminster, 27 January 1332; the bishop of Durham's gift of the manor to Americus de Trew is dated 27 December 1331. Walter de Selby, a former rebel and adherent of the Scots, received a general pardon on 13 March 1327 (CPR 1327-1330 p.36)The commission in CIM 1307-49 pp.219-220 (no. 880) is dated 6 December 19 Edward II (1325) and the inquisition was held on the eve of Trinity following (May-June 1326). This relates to the petition edited in Rot. Parl. vol. I, p.431, (no. 2).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition from Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham, refusing to re-deliver his lands to Walter de Selby, see SC 8/43/2121
For an earlier petition concerning the same lands see SC 8/8/393
For a related petition from Walter de Selby, see SC 8/74/3660
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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 7158
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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.219-220 (no.880) (inquisition into lands held by Walter de Selby of the Prior of Durham, the result of an earlier petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.240 (inspeximus and confirmation of confirmation by prior and convent of Durham of grant by bishop of Durham of manor of Felling to Americus de Trew, and of his grant of it to Thomas Surteyse)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.265-266 (no. 197) (full edition of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.431, no. 2 (edition of later copy of earlier petition from Prior of Durham concerning the same lands)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060518/
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