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Richard de la Pole of Hartington Pole Richard King and council. Hartington, Derbyshire...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/52/2559

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This record is about the Richard de la Pole of Hartington Pole Richard King and council. Hartington, Derbyshire... dating from [c. 1325-c. 1350] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/52/2559
Date
[c. 1325-c. 1350]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de la Pole of Hartington
Name(s)
Pole, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Hartington, Derbyshire
Nature of request
Richard de la Pole states that he holds a water mill at Fairfield, in the forest of High Peak, of the king at fee farm, for the repair of which its previous tenants have always had timber in the forest. The mill is now very run-down and ruinous, but although Richard has often asked the Master of the forest for timber, he has refused to do so without a new warrant. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
.He is to show in Chancery how he came to have this mill, and if he shows a charter or other thing by which he has reasonably come to have it, then certain people are to be appointed to inquire into whether the tenants of the said mill used to have such timber, and from what time, and by what title, and if the said Richard has been seised of this, and from what time he has been prevented from having it, and into the other circumstances; and when the inquisition has been returned in Chancery, justice is to be done there.
Note
Dated on the guard to '? early Edward III', which seems plausible from the hand and the French endorsement. No positive context has been established, and the petition is therefore dated notionally to the second quarter of the fourteenth century.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6634
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), pp.399b-400a (no.120), (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062774/

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