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William de Eggesclewe (Egglescliffe). de Eggesclewe (Egglescliffe) William King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/9/402
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/9/402
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Eggesclewe (Egglescliffe).
- Name(s)
- de Eggesclewe (Egglescliffe), William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- William de Eggesclewe states that he was attorney and steward of the lands of Lady Isabel, widow of John de Wescye, and auditor of the accounts of her bailiffs and stewards, together with John de Munce; and that, as Isabel's letters patent, in the keeping of William de Carltoun, baron of the Exchequer, prove, Isabel said she would ratify whatever they did, jointly or separately, in her name. But at her procurement, and at the suit of her people, he was arrested, and will have been in prison in London for ten years at the feast of St Andrew. He requests that he may be released, to stand to right and do and receive justice whenever it pleases the king and his council.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram toto consilio.The sheriffs of London, in whose keeping he is, are to be ordered by writ of Chancery that he is to be released, on sufficient security that he will appear in the Exchequer on a certain day to stand to right; and that Isabel is to be instructed by writ to be there also; and the writ is to be returned there. [Later addition] And they are to have a day three weeks after Easter.
- Places mentioned
- London.
- People mentioned
- Isabel [de Wescye (Vescy)]
- John de Wescye (Vescy)
- John de Munce
- William de Carltoun (Carleton, Carlton), baron of the Exchequer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1281-1292, p.409 is dated at Ashridge, January 1 1291; CCR 1296-1302, p.75 is dated at Ipswich, December 30 1296. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions 'all belong to the end of the reign of Edward I, with a heavy concentration in the year 1305'. A note on the guard of the petition also mentions CFR 1272-1307, p.259, which includes an order to the escheators (Westminster 16 April 1289) to deliver certain lands to Isabel after her husband's death, and several other similar orders, some involving William de Eggesclewe, and CCR 1288-1291 p.11, an order (Westminster, May 12 1289) to William de Eggesclewe to permit the escheator to deliver to certain goods and chattels to Isabel de Vescy after her husband's death, and p. 13 (Westminster, 12 June 1289), an order to the escheators to take them back and re-deliver them to William de Eggesclewe and others.Another note on the dorse says '? 1305, cf. writing of rest of file'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.64 of PRO 31/7/93
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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 I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.75 (memorandum mentioning that William was Isabel de Vescy's 'late steward')
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.409 (Isabella widow of John de Vescy, going beyond seas, nominates John de Montibus and William de Eggesclive as her attorneys for one year)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.460a-b, no.2 (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060528/
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