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Godfrey de Wardley of Rutland. de Wardley Godfrey King and council Wardley requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2475

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This record is about the Godfrey de Wardley of Rutland. de Wardley Godfrey King and council Wardley requests... dating from [c. 1310-c. 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/50/2475
Date
[c. 1310-c. 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Godfrey de Wardley of Rutland.
Name(s)
de Wardley, Godfrey
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Wardley requests that he be allowed to be mainprised until an eyre as he was bound as a pledge to strangers who anciently trespassed in the forest of the bishop of Lincoln and Morwode in Rutland, and he dare not reside in his country for penalty of imprisonment for this undertaking.
Nature of endorsement
He should explain the petition.
Places mentioned
Rutland.
People mentioned
Bishop of Lincoln
Roger de Morwode.
Note
Dated tentatively on the guard to c. 1310-c. 1320 on the basis of contemporaneous reference to Roger de Morewode (CPR 1313-17, pp. 109, 124; CCR 1318-23, pp. 275, 354). This dating is not secure.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3611
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062689/

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