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Thomas de Fynmer de Fynmer Thomas King and council The petitioner shows that he has...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/48/2361

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This record is about the Thomas de Fynmer de Fynmer Thomas King and council The petitioner shows that he has... dating from [c. 1332] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/48/2361
Date
[c. 1332]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas de Fynmer
Name(s)
de Fynmer, Thomas
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The petitioner shows that he has been deprived of his free tenements (without being present to answer) by reason of an inquest held before the escheator of Yorkshire. The petitioner was deprived of a messuage and four bovates of land in Thoralby and a messuage and two bovates of land in Skirpenbeck together with all his goods, houses, and profits, and requests that the king restore to him the said properties by sufficient sureties, or in other ways, with the council of the king.
Nature of endorsement
Let the petition be delivered into chancery for the officers to examine the inquest, and to try the right of the petitioner through a writ of scire facias.
Places mentioned
Thoraldby (Thoralby), [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Skirpynbek (Skirpenbeck), [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Yorkshire.
Note
Dated to 1332 on the basis of reference to protagonists in CCR 1330-3, pp. 571, 574.
Related material

For another version of this petition see SC 8/206/10292

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3476
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.399b (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062572/

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