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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Alan de Kirkeby, son of Alan de Kirkeby. de Kirkeby Alan King and council The petitioner...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/55/2724
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This record is about the Alan de Kirkeby, son of Alan de Kirkeby. de Kirkeby Alan King and council The petitioner... dating from [1315] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/55/2724
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alan de Kirkeby, son of Alan de Kirkeby.
- Name(s)
- de Kirkeby, Alan
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioner asks that he be excused payment of his farm of 20s per year to the Carlisle exchequer for twenty acres of cleared wasteland in Inglewood Forest, because the land has been wasted and he has been ruined, impoverished and imprisoned by the king's Scottish enemies. The petitioner's father was let to farm twenty acres of waste in Petrelwra in Inglewood Forest to hold of Nevile for one mark per year to the exchequer, and afterwards in the eyre Vescy and his fellow justices declared that now cleared and sown with corn the land was worth 7½ marks, and raised the farm to 20s per year.
- Nature of endorsement
- An order to the treasurer and chancellor to view the arrears and appoint a commission to investigate the case and notify chancery, and grant [the petition] if it is correct and establish that the petitioner is the king's tenant.
- Places mentioned
- Inglewood Forest, [Cumberland]
- Kardoill (Carlisle), [Cumberland]
- People mentioned
- Alan de Kirkeby, the petitioner's father
- Geoffrey de Nevile, lately Justice of the Forest of Trent
- William de Vescy
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Firmly datable by reference to CFR 1307-19, p.239.
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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 3474
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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)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.239 (outcome of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062942/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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