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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Tenants of the manor of Owston. King and council. The tenants of the manor of Owston...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/17/823
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/17/823
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Tenants of the manor of Owston.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The tenants of the manor of Owston in the honour of Pontefract state that they are charged to Queen Isabella, from the time when the manor was in her hand, through the account of Thomas de Eyvill, the former keeper of the manor, with a rent of 44 s. 1 d. per annum beyond the rents and services they were accustomed to pay and perform, as can be seen from a record and process held in the Exchequer in the Trinity term in the second year of the present king's reign, where it was found that they were wrongly charged, and so they are there acquitted of it for the time when the manor was in the hands of the king's father. They request a writ of the great seal to the auditors of the accounts of the lands which were the queen's, that, when they have examined the process, if they find that the tenants are acquitted as they say, they are to acquit them of the rent for the whole period when they were charged with it by the queen.
- Nature of endorsement
- They are to have a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer that they are to have the tenor of the record and process brought before the auditors of the queen's accounts, and, if they find that they were legally acquitted, then they are to acquit them.
- Places mentioned
- Owston, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Pountfreint (Pontefact), [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Isabella [of France], Queen of England
- Thomas de Eyvill (Deyvill), formerly keeper of the manor of Owston
- Edward [II], King of England, father of the present king.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard of the petition to '? c. 1331'. This presumably dates from shortly after Queen Isabella's fall, so 'c. 1331' is given here as a date. The Close Roll references are not helpful, but CCR 1330-3 p.254 (Lincoln, 20 July 1331) shows that the manor was then in the hands of Queen Philippa.
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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 6295
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.411b-412a (no.187) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060966/
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