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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Wessyngton (Washington). de Wessyngton (Washington) William King. Wessyngton...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/617
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/13/617
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Wessyngton (Washington).
- Name(s)
- de Wessyngton (Washington), William
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Wessyngton shows that he took Colville as a prisoner of war, and for a ransom was granted 20 marks from his manor of Oxnam for life. On Colville's death the king having regard for this charge gave him the custody of the heir. He was ousted by the Scots until the battle of Neville's Cross, and following his re-entry was ousted by the sheriff of Roxburgh. He requests that the king remember his gift to Wessyngton and order the chamberlain of Berwick to order the sheriff of Roxburgh by a writ to remove the king's hand, and he be left in peace until the ward comes of age, and that the king have regard that in the present situation the wardship is only worth the 20 marks which are due to Wessyngton.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the petition be ordered into Chancery, and display there the title that Wessyngton has of the rent, and if it should appear that he has a just title then let it be enquired of by good men of the truth of the matter, and the inquest returned into Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Oxenham (Oxnam), [Roxburghshire, Scotland]
- Melrose, [Roxburghshire , Scotland]
- Durham, [County Durham].
- People mentioned
- Robert de Colvill (Colville) of Oxnam
- Sheriff of Roxburgh
- Chamberlain of Berwick.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This is dated to 1348 by the details given in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.175; see also PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 33. The date may well be correct as the reference to the battle of Durham, which can only be Neville's Cross, was fought in October 1346.
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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 8884
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.182b (no.30) (full edition of a later copy of 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), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 33 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060756/
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