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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Adam la Geyte, (watchman). Geyte; Adam King and council. watchman Adam la Geyte states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/9/427
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/9/427
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam la Geyte, (watchman).
- Name(s)
- Geyte;, Adam
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- watchman
- Nature of request
- Adam la Geyte states that he bought from Adam de Sleygil all his right in a land and tenement, with appurtenances, in Tebay in Westmorland, which Adam de Sleygil lost by default. Adam la Geyte currently holds it of the king, for a certain sum of money to be paid in the Exchequer annually, and now asks that he might have it, for himself and his heirs, to hold of the king for the services which were due before Adam de Sleygil lost it, or at least for the term of his life for those services.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.The king has granted it for the term of his life, giving the due and accustomed rent for it.
- Places mentioned
- Tibbeye (Tebay), Westmorland.
- People mentioned
- Adam de Sleygil (Sleagill).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated with reference to PROME and CFR 1272-1307, p. 530-531 (dated at Westminster, 5 November 1305); CCR 1288-1296, p. 384 is dated at Canterbury, 19 April 1294. CCR 1327-1330, p.347 is dated at Salisbury, 26 October 1328.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.80 of PRO 31/7/93
For a later petition (1328) concerning the same lands is SC 8/17/826
Another petition probably from the same petitioner is SC 8/89/4434
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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 203
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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. III, 1288-1296, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.384 (Adam son of Robert de Slegil seeks to replevy lands in Tebay and Roundthwaite, taken into the king's hand for a default before justices in Eyre in Yorkshire)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.347 (grant of lands which Adam le Gayt held for the term of his life to Robert de Sandford)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), pp. 530-531 (grant for life to Adam le Gayte of lands in Tebay previously held at will)
- 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), 1305, autumn parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere, no.32 (list of references to this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060553/
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