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Roger de Huntyngfeld (Huntingfield) son of William de Huntingfield. de Huntyngfeld...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/517

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Reference
SC 8/11/517
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Huntyngfeld (Huntingfield) son of William de Huntingfield.
Name(s)
de Huntyngfeld (Huntingfield), Roger
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Huntingfeld shows that Thorp, who recently died, held nothing of the king in chief, but only the manor of Combs in fee, and he also held of the manor of Horsham from Huntingfeld all of which was found by an inquest by the escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk who seized the lands because of the minority of Thorp. He requests that he can have a writ to the escheator, and that he be able to have the lands which were held in knight service, and Thorp held nothing from the king but in farm.
Nature of endorsement
He should sue in Chancery where the matter will be expedited.
Places mentioned
Cames (Combs), [Suffolk]
Horham, [Suffolk].
People mentioned
William de Huntyngfeld (Huntingfield), father of the petitioner
Robert [de Thorp (Thorpe)] son of John de Thorpe
John de Thorp (Thorpe), father of Robert de Thorpe.
Note
Dated to 1330 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.31 which records that this is from a Hale manuscript of petitions in parliament of 4 Edward III at Westminster after the feast of St Katherine (25 November).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4143
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.40b (no.46) (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
  • 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. 31-51, no. 46 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060644/

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