Adam la Geyte, (watchman). Geyte; Adam King and council. watchman Adam la Geyte states...

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).

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

• 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)