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People of Cornwall. King and council The petitioners state that the earls and the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1996

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SC 8/40/1996
Date
[c. 1317]
Description
Petitioners
People of Cornwall.
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The petitioners state that the earls and the queen had the chattels of felons and fugitives, and wreck of sea, which chattels were taken to burghs and villages by the justices, coroners and other ministers to answer in the eyre of the justices to deliver them to those whose right they were by judgement, and this was the usage to the last eyre. Afterwards Hyde and other sheriffs by lordship and distress of certain boroughs and vills such chattels and wrecks are levied in the county, and now as soon as the chattels are proffered they are levied against law and their usage. The people request they can be at the common law as they anciently were, or that they be quit of the prise which they have paid so that they are not hindered in this before any minister of the king.
Nature of endorsement
Because the king granted the queen that she should have the chattels of felons, and that she is able by her ministers can place in their seizin immediately just as it made in her charter, and it is agreed by the council of the king that the villages in the county of Cornwall in eyres and elsewhere be exonerated. It is ordered that letters patent of the king be made to the community of the council, that at times when the county comes into the hand of the queen, and those chattels were received, that the communities and each village be exonerated of those chattels in the eyre and elsewhere.
Places mentioned
Cornwall.
People mentioned
Richard [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall
Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall
[Isabella of France], Queen of England
Thomas de la Hide (Hyde), Sheriff of Cornwall.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1317 as the petition states that the county is in the queen's hand, and Edward II did not grant the county to Queen Isabella until 25 July 1317 (CPR 1317-21, p.5). The petition is also endorsed in Latin, and this would suggest that it is before 1322 when petitions begin to be predominantly endorsed in Anglo-Norman.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1321
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.5 (grant of the county to the queen)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062200/

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