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Thomas de Denham of Suffolk. de Denham Thomas King and council The petitioner complains...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/42/2070
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/42/2070
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1289]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Denham of Suffolk.
- Name(s)
- de Denham, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioner complains of Rochester that he purchased a writ of mort d'ancestor in the last eyre of Suffolk, 14 Edw. I impleading Theobald de Denham and Robert his son before Rochester, but the suit was delayed for the whole eyre by the procurement of Weylond whom Theobald de Denham's sons had served, and the suit was adjourned to the Bench. His challenge has not been allowed and has been sent back to the Bench where the petitioner cannot pursue his plea because of his poverty, and is destroyed and ruined by the plea and the delays, and will lose his right to his adversaries by his poverty, and dare not reside in the country.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Rochester answered and said that that assize was not delayed, because he said that they pleaded to the assize around Lent and that because the Chancery was closed it did not proceed because it seemed to him that the oath acknowledged at that time should be spared. Furthermore he said that it will appear that the assize was delayed for certain reasons concerning another assize and he requests that his rolls might be examined. And he says further that the petitioner remised all his right, and requests judgement.2) And Brompton said that no injury to him was done because the petitioner for some considerable time after pleades against him, and the petitioner came into Chancery and remised all his claim, and he requests judgement. A day is given the Friday after . . . John the Baptist.
- Places mentioned
- Suffolk
- Hoxne hundred, [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- Saleman de Rouchestre (Rochester)
- Theobald de Denham
- Robert [de Denham], son of Theobald de Denham, Marshal of Thomas de Weylond
- Thomas de Weylond
- Thomas [de Denham], son of Theobald de Denham
- William de Bromton
- Robert de Litelbyr
- William Flemmyng (Flemming)
- Peter Oysel
- William de Helton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition seems to fit into the period of administrative reform initiated by Edward I following his return from the continent in 1289 (Prestwich, Edward I, pp.339-42).
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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 2588
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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)
- Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. I, Edw I, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LV, 1936), pp.cxliv-v (entry b) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062276/
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