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William Knyth (Knight). Knyth (Knight) William King and council. William Knyth states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/898
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/18/898
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1368-1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Knyth (Knight).
- Name(s)
- Knyth (Knight), William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- William Knyth states that the king wrongly took some tenements which his father had in London into his hand, and gave them to the Abbot of Towerhill and the Prior of Rochester, because they had originally been left by the will of one Walter de Hendon, clerk, to fund three chaplains singing divine service for the soul of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, after the statute restricting alienation in mortmain and without the king's permission: although he himself had given his pardon for this in the fourteenth year of his reign. He petitioned the last parliament at Westminster about this, and was given the response that his petition should be sent to Chancery and justice done to him. Although it has been found that his claim is good, the Chancellor will not give him execution of the award. He requests a writ of scire facias to the abbot and prior, for them to appear and give any reason they have why he should not have execution of his tenements.
- Nature of endorsement
- This bill is to be delivered into Chancery, and there, when the king's serjeants have been called, if necessary, and any others who are to be called, justice and law are to be done.
- Places mentioned
- London.
- People mentioned
- Ralph Knyth (Knight), father of petitioner
- Richard de Rodeneye (Rodney), escheator south of the Trent
- Walter de Hendon, clerk
- Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
- John Knyth (Knight), grandfather of petitioner
- Ralph de Blithe
- Agnes [Skinner], wife of Stephen Skinner
- Simon Moredon (Mordone), Mayor of London and Escheator
- John Rudde, chaplain
- Richard Madur, chaplain
- Abbot of Towerhill [St Mary Graces]
- Prior of Rochester.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a copy of the testament of Walter Hendon see SC 8/37/1804
For an earlier petition concerning the chantry and the tenements see SC 8/37/1802
A related document is no. 1 in C 145/216
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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 4635
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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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.51b-52a (no.5) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061051/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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