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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas de Langley, son and heir of John de Langley. de Langley Thomas King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/57/2801
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/57/2801
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c.1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Langley, son and heir of John de Langley.
- Name(s)
- de Langley, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks recovery of the park of Cornbury and nearby pasture as his rightful inheritance. He shows that custody of the park (which is a parcel of Wychwood forest) and the pasture was established to the father of the petitioner by inheritance from his ancestors since time without memory for £7 each year to the exchequer. On 2 July in the tenth year of his reign (1317) the king's father, by writ under his privy seal, ordered the petitioner's father to deliver to Roger de la Chambre the garden of the manor of Woodstock together with all the pasture, and that he should have allowance of the rent in the exchequer, which order was complied with and the said properties remain in the king's hands. Nevertheless, the petitioner's father in his time and the petitioner continue to be charged the aforesaid £7 to the exchequer year on year.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- An order to the justices of the forest beyond Trent that their officers are to enquire (under oath) into the truth of the contents of this petition etc., and the results returned into chancery for final certification in respect thereof by the king.2) Let him have an order of quare ...
- Places mentioned
- Cornbury Park, [Oxfordshire]
- Wychwood Forest, [Oxfordshire]
- Woodstock, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Langley, father of the petitioner
- Roger de la Chambre
- Edward III, King of England
- Richard II, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- If the Langley family referred to here are the landed family in Warwickshire and Oxfordshire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, then this petition must date after the death of John de Langley in 1326, when his son, Master Thomas Langley, took charge of the estate. CCR 1327-30, p. 7, provides a terminus a quo. It probably dates from the early years of the reign.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition see SC 8/56/2789
For a related petition see SC 8/56/2790
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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 4833
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063019/
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