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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Geoffrey de Staunton, son of William de Staunton de Staunton Geoffrey King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/12/592
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/12/592
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Geoffrey de Staunton, son of William de Staunton
- Name(s)
- de Staunton, Geoffrey
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Geoffrey de Staunton shows that he had brought his writ of formedon against John and Amy, and has for a long time been delayed by defaults, and by essoins for service of the king and in other manners. This delay now to Trinity next coming is to his great damage and disinheritance, so that he requests that the record be read and examined, and it ordered that judgement be given on the plea pleaded at the quinzene of Trinity so that Geoffrey not be longer delayed from his right.
- Nature of endorsement
- The council is advised that by the law of the land Geoffrey de Staunton who is a stranger to the fine is admissible to the averment which he has because he is not removed from this averment by statute nor by other law, wherefore the court ought to proceed to judgement since the parties have pleaded and are postponed to both parties' peril. And regarding the last point of record where the answer reserved to that if the court adjudged that she ought to answer, she is prepared to do, it is agreed that she is not able to come to another answer by the law of the land nor save any other answer by her protestation from the time that the parties are stayed in judgement as appears by the record of which this petition makes mention. And upon this let there be a writ to the justices of the common bench where the plea is ordering them that they proceed to judgement in the plea according to the judgement and advice notwithstanding the protestations aforesaid.
- Places mentioned
- Eyleston (Elston), [Nottinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Staunton de Elston
- Amy [de Staunton], wife of John de Staunton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1340 by its presence amongst very lengthy legal proceedings in the roll of parliament of July 1340 (see heading on Rot. Parl., vol II, p.117). This is supported by a writ of 22 May 1340 in accordance with the answer on the petition (CCR 1339-41, pp.408-9): this petition itself was presented in the previous parliament, that of March-May 1340 (see PROME, parliament of March-May 1340, Appendix no. 5).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 8846
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1339-1341, (Public Record Office, 1901), pp.408-9 (writ summarising legal proceedings, petition and answer, and ordering the justices to proceed to judgement)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.124b (full edition of petition on parliament roll amongst extensive judicial process)
- Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. VI, Edw III, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LXXXII, 1965), p.3 (edition of 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), parliament of March-May 1340, Appendix no. 5
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060731/
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