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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Piers Corbet. Corbet Piers King and council 1) Corbet complains of Bray that he took...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1997
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This record is about the Piers Corbet. Corbet Piers King and council 1) Corbet complains of Bray that he took... dating from [c. 1285] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/40/1997
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1285]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Piers Corbet.
- Name(s)
- Corbet, Piers
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- 1) Corbet complains of Bray that he took and sold the keeping and marriage of the heirs of Waws which pertained to him by the gift of the king of the manor of Merston until Beauchamp came of age. He requests a remedy.2) He further complains that Mathia de Stoke recovered 50s. from him in the name of dower from rent which he received in the manor of Wynterburne by gift of the king. He requests that he can vouch the king to warranty.
- Nature of endorsement
- The charter of gift of the king should be viewed before the chancellor, and according to the tenor of the charter let justice be done.
- Places mentioned
- Merston, [Somerset]
- Wynterburne Fiasse (Anderson), [Dorset]
- Wells, [Somerset].
- People mentioned
- Henry de Bray, Escheator of the Trent
- John de Beuchamp (Beauchamp)
- Randulph de Waws
- Thomas de Dutton of Wells
- Mathia [Estokis (Stoke)], widow of William de Estokis.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition would appear to date to c. 1285 for Corbet received the grant of the lands referred to in the petition on 16 June 1285, and Mathia de Stoke had acquired the possession of her heir and two parts of the manor of Wynterburn on 1 July 1285 on condition that she rendered the extent for those two parts to Corbet (CPR 1281-92, pp. 175-6, 182).
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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 1552
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), pp. 175-6 (grant to Corbet in full satisfaction of a grant to him of land to the annual value of £100) & p.182 (grant to Mathia de Stoke of the custody of the heir and two parts of the manor of Wynterburn rendering the extent to Corbet)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062201/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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