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? No Petitioner named Transcript of a writ from Edward II to the sheriff of Lincolnshire,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/868C

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Transcript of a writ from Edward II to the sheriff of Lincolnshire,... dating from [1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/18/868C
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Transcript of a writ from Edward II to the sheriff of Lincolnshire, instructing him to order Gervase Avenel and Joan his wife to hand over various tenements in Carleton near Bassingham to the Abbot of Thornton, as he claims that they have unjustly deforced him of them. And if they do not do this, and if the abbot has established his claim before the sheriff, then the sheriff is to have Gervase and Joan appear before the king's justices at Westminster, one month after Easter, to explain their actions.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Karleton (Carlton le Moorland), [Lincolnshire]
Bassingham, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Edward [II], King of England
[John de Nevill (Neville) of Stoke], sheriff of Lincolnshire
Abbot of Thornton
Gervase Avenel
Joan [Avenel] wife of Gervase Avenel.
Note
The writ is dated to 1327 with SC 8/18/868E, the petition with which it was formerly enclosed. The writ itself is dated at Lincoln, 28 February, 9 Edward II (1316)
Related material

For a writ resulting from that petition see SC 8/18/868J

For related letters patent of Edward III see SC 8/18/868F

For instructions to the escheator resulting from that petition see SC 8/18/869B

For the inquisition held as a result of SC 8/18/868F see SC 8/18/868G

For the petition which this document supports see SC 8/18/868E

For a related letter from Edward II to Henry le Scrope see SC 8/18/868A

For a transcript of related legal proceedings see SC 8/18/868D

For a letter resulting from that inquisition see SC 8/18/868H

For a related letter from Edward II to William de Bereford see SC 8/18/868B

For a related petition, see SC 8/175/8743

For a later related petition see SC 8/18/869A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7956
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061013/

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