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? No Petitioner named Copy of a mandate from Aldeburgh to the sheriff of York Reciting...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/543H

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a mandate from Aldeburgh to the sheriff of York Reciting... dating from [1339] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/11/543H
Date
[1339]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a mandate from Aldeburgh to the sheriff of York Reciting that he and his associates have been assigned to hold an inquest touching the circumstances of the advowson of the church of St Sampson of York. On the part of the king he orders the sheriff that he bring before them at York on 2 August 1339 all such free and law-worthy men of the county by whom the truth of the matter concerning Woodhouse's rights to the advowson can be better known.
Nature of endorsement
Ralph de Hastynges, sheriff of York have entrusted the full return of this mandate to Holme, Stayngreve and Sowerby, to bring before Aldeburgh all and such men according to the form of the mandate, with whom the execution of the same mandate rests to make them respond as appears in a certain indented list attached to this mandate. And further the sheriff answers that the original writ is being attached to the mandate.
Places mentioned
York
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard de Aldeburgh (Aldborough)
Ralph de Hastynges (Hastings), sheriff of Yorkshire
Robert de Wodehous (Woodhouse), archdeacon of Richmond
Prior of Pontefract
William de Holme
Ralph de Stayngreve
John de Soureby (Sowerby).
Note
The mandate is dated to 1339 with SC 8/11/543A, the petition with which it was formerly enclosed. The mandate itself is dated by the dating clause to the 22 July 1339.
Related material

The petition relating to this document is SC 8/11/543A

A further related document originally bound together with this document is is SC 8/11/543B

A further related document originally bound together with this document is SC 8/11/543C

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8935
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060677/

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