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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas de Laton, knight. de Laton Thomas King and council. The petitioner seeks the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/57/2815
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This record is about the Thomas de Laton, knight. de Laton Thomas King and council. The petitioner seeks the... dating from [c. 1312] 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 8/57/2815
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1312]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Laton, knight.
- Name(s)
- de Laton, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks the king's special mandate to proceed in a writ of novel disseisin against Richard de Walkerle and others concerning certain tenements in Cumberland. He shows that when he [first] brought the writ, Richard answered that he was unable to take the assize because he held the tenements out of the king's gift, and showed his charter. The petitioner sued to the king to proceed, which was granted provided that he did not dissent from the judgement of king and council. He then sued by petition to the parliament held at Westminster ... Martinmas, year five of [the present] King Edward (1311), to which it was answered that the petitioner ... appealed to the king's council to view the record, which record was returned into chancery the following Hilary term (1312). The petitioner went into chancery and sought a writ to the justices toward ... in the said assize, which he was unable to get without the king's special mandate.
- Nature of endorsement
- ... the record and process before king and council.
- Places mentioned
- Cumberland
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Edward II, King of England
- Richard de Walkerle.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Internal evidence indicates that the earliest possible date for this petition is 1312, and it presumably dates to that year or shortly afterwards.
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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 4957
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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/C9063035/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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