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? petitioner name(s) illegible Letter from Edward II to Henry le Scrop, explaining...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/875B

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This record is about the ? petitioner name(s) illegible Letter from Edward II to Henry le Scrop, explaining... dating from [1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/18/875B
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
? petitioner name(s) illegible
Nature of request
Letter from Edward II to Henry le Scrop, explaining how Peter Corbet and Henry de la Pomeraye, the father, sued to Edward I by petition in parliament to claim the castle of Trematon and the villages of Saltash, Sutton, Tamerton, Makerton and Calstock, as their right and reversion, because Roger de Vautort their kinsman, whose heirs they are, gave the castle and manors to Richard King of Almain and Earl of Cornwall and to his heirs engendered of his body, with the reversion to Roger in default of such heirs, and the legal process that followed this claim, and asking him to examine the record and process, to call the great council if necessary, and to do justice to John and Henry.
Nature of endorsement
[Endorsement to SC 8/18/875A] The justices of the bench are to be ordered that, when they have examined the record and process before them, they are to inform the king.
Places mentioned
Trematon, [Cornwall]
Esse (Saltash), [Cornwall]
Sutton (Plymouth) [Devon]
Tamerton (King's Tamerton), [Cornwall]
Makerton (Maker), [Cornwall]
Calstock, [Cornwall]
Devon
Eboracum (York).
People mentioned
[Edward II], King of England
Henry le Scrop (Scrope), justice
John Corbet
Peter Corbet
Henry [de la Pomeraye (Pomeray)], the son
Henry de la Pomeraye (Pomeray), the father
Edward [I], King of England
Roger de Vautort
Gilbert de Prestone (Preston), justice
Richard [of Cornwall], Earl of Cornwall
Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall
Roger le Brabazoun (Brabazon), justice.
Related material

The petition to which this letter is attached is SC 8/18/875A

A related petition is SC 8/136/6769

A petition concerning another part of the petitioners' inheritance is SC 8/66/3253

A related charter is SC 8/3/116

An earlier related petition is SC 8/3/114

Related legal proceedings are on m. 5 in KB 27/180

A later related petition is SC 8/18/876

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2196
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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), roll 25, appendix, no.40 (a summary and edition of related documents for an earlier related petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061028/

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