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? No Petitioner named Letter of Despenser by which he does homage, relief and scutage...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/15/717

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Reference
SC 8/15/717
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of Despenser by which he does homage, relief and scutage for a knight's fee in Nether Swindon to Gardines.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Nether Swindon (Nethercott), [Wiltshire]
London.
People mentioned
Hugh Despenser, [Earl of Winchester]
Thomas de Gardines.
Note
This copy of a deed is contemporary with the preceding petition, so must date to 1327. The deed is dated in its dating clause to Monday in the morrow of St John ante portam Latinam, 13 Edward II, though the Monday was actually the vigil, and should be 5 May 1320.
Related material

For the petition which this deed accompanied see SC 8/15/716

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3571
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
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.389b (no.61) (full edition of original deed)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060858/

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