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Gilbert de Elsefeld (Elsfield) de Elsefeld (Elsfield) Gilbert King and council [Petition...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/45/2216

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Reference
SC 8/45/2216
Date
[? 1318]
Description
Petitioners
Gilbert de Elsefeld (Elsfield)
Name(s)
de Elsefeld (Elsfield), Gilbert
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
[Petition badly damaged.]Gilbert de Elsefeld states that John de Seynte Eleyne, who married Juliana de Elsefeld, grandmother of the said Gilbert, had leased to Adam de Stretton £10 of land in Blunsdon for term of life and £5 of rent in the vill of Cricklade in the county of Wiltshire, of the dower of the said Juliana and of the inheritance of the same Gilbert. These tenements were seized into the hand of our lord the King, together with other lands and tenements of the said Adam, because of his forfeiture. [Gilbert and] John his father, son and heir of the said Juliana, have often sued by petition in parliament . . . our lord the King that that land and rent might be given to him as his . . . lord the king and his council that justice and reason be done to him . . . cannot have other estate in the said land and rent than the said Adam had.
Nature of endorsement
[Not visible, due to damage to ms, and it is impossible to tell whether there was ever an endorsement. This is the endorsement edited in Docs. Illus. English History p.32: 'The Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains of the Exchequer are to be ordered by a writ of the great seal, containing the entire effect of the petition, to examine the memoranda and muniments in the Treasury which belonged to Adam de Stretton, and to inform themselves on what they can find concerning this business: and if that is not sufficient to determine the business etc., then they are further to inquire in the Exchequer, and they are to inform the King in Chancery of what they have found in the Exchequer or by that inquiry: so that he might further ordain a suitable remedy for the complainant etc.']
Places mentioned
Blunsdon, Wiltshire
Cricklade, Wiltshire
People mentioned
Juliana de Elsefeld
[John de Seynte Eleyne]
Adam [de Stretton]
John [de Elsefeld], son and heir of Juliana de Elsefeld.
Note
The Latin summary of the petition is enrolled on the roll of the October parliament of 12 Edward II (1318) (Docs. Illus. English History p.32).
Related material

For a much later but related petition, see SC 8/84/4158

For the former reference number of a portion of this petition which has subsequently been reunited with this fragment, see SC 8/155/7702

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/1/35

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3045;Parliamentary Petition 7702
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1888 (inquisition into a later exchange involving these manors between the petitioner and Edward III)
  • Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.32 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062426/

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