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Petitioners

Robert de Veer (Vere), Earl of Oxford.

Name(s)

de Veer (Vere), Earl of Oxford, Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Robert de Veer, Earl of Oxford states that his grandfather Hugh, whose heir he is, had view of frankpledge in his manor of Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire, as had all his ancestors from time immemorial; he leased this manor, with all its appurtenances including the view, to Roger de Walsham for term of life, but Roger, through negligence, allowed the sheriff to enter and hold the view: and thus the king is seised of it. He requests a remedy, that he might not be disinherited.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.He is to have a writ of Chancery to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, to institute an inquiry into the contents of the petition.

Places mentioned

Swafham (Swaffham Prior), Cambridgeshire.

People mentioned

Hugh de Veer (Vere), Earl of Oxford

Roger de Walsham.

For transcript, see p.142 of PRO 31/7/93

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp. 482-483 (instructions to sheriff of Cambridgeshire to restore leet to Robert de Veer)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.539 (no.1996) (inquisition into Hugh de Veer's holding of a leet in Swaffham)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.478b, no.108 (full edition of original document) & p.192a-b (Latin summary of later related petition on parliament roll)
• 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.5 (full edition and translation in connection with later enrolled petition)