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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Plumton (Plompton), the son of Robert de Plompton. de Plumton; Plompton...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/870
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/18/870
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Plumton (Plompton), the son of Robert de Plompton.
- Name(s)
- de Plumton; Plompton, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- William, son of Robert de Plumton states that the wood of Fulwith, whose boundaries he describes, belongs to his manor of Plompton in Yorkshire, as his right and inheritance, together with all manner of profits arising from the wood, except for game rights to stags, hinds and roe-bucks, but that Edmund Earl of Cornwall and lord of the honour of Knaresborough wrongly prevented his father from exercising those rights, except those of housebote and haybote, and the bailiffs of the honour of Knaresborough still continue to do this. He requests that his right be investigated, so that law and justice can be done for him.
- Nature of endorsement
- Certain people are to be appointed in Chancery to inquire into which of William's ancestors received these profits by reason of the wood mentioned in the petition, and by whom he was removed and how and when, and into all other necessary attendant circumstances; and the inquisition is to be returned in Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Plompton, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Foulewyth (Fulwith), [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- River Crimple, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Oseberneschaghenbek [unidentified], [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Puttokkstancros (Pudding Stone Cross) [unidentified], [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Harlawe (Harlow), [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Bilton, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Stokbrug (Stockbridge) [unidentified], [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Holbeck, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- River Nidd, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Knaresborough, [West Riding of] Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- Robert de Plumton (Plompton), father of the petitioner
- Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A Latin summary appears on a roll of abstracts of petitions from 1327 edited by Richardson and Sayles in Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined. p.151: it appears clear that this is the same petition.CCR 1330-3 p.464, dated at Woodstock, 15 June 1332, may be related.
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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 6639
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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. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.464 (order to Keeper of the Forest beyond Trent to enclose the land of Plumpton as it used to be by the ancient boundaries)
- Early Yorkshire Charters, vol. I, Ed. W. Farrer, (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record , 1935), no.515 (grant (c.1181-90) by William de Stutevill to Nigel de Plumpton of the waste of the forest of Knaresborough, along the same boundaries)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.151 (full modern edition of petition and Latin summary on parliament roll)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.433a, no.36 (later English summary of petition and response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061022/
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