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? petitioner name(s) illegible Charter of King John disafforesting all of the forest...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/505

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This record is about the ? petitioner name(s) illegible Charter of King John disafforesting all of the forest... dating from [1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/11/505
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
? petitioner name(s) illegible
Nature of request
Charter of King John disafforesting all of the forest of Wharfedale entirely of all things that pertain to the forest and foresters.
Nature of endorsement
. . . day in the octave of Holy Trinity.
Places mentioned
Quervedale (Wharfedale), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
John, King of England
Gilbert fitz Peter, Earl of Essex
William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke
William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey
William de Braos (Braose)
Hugh de Neville
W. Brewer
P. de Stoke, W. de Cantilupe.
Note
The charter dates to 1327 with SC 8/11/504, the petition with which it was formerly enclosed. The charter is dated by the dating clause that, despite the damage, is likely to read 27 March, 5 John (1204).
Related material

For a duplicate of SC 8/11/504 see SC 8/257/12835

For the petition to which this charter was appended see SC 8/11/504

For a related petition see SC 8/257/12832

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 9007
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 31 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060632/

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