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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert de Ledes, the king's poor tenant of Skipton. de Ledes Robert King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/57/2821
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This record is about the Robert de Ledes, the king's poor tenant of Skipton. de Ledes Robert King and council.... dating from [c. 1322] 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 8/57/2821
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Ledes, the king's poor tenant of Skipton.
- Name(s)
- de Ledes, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks assurance that he should not pay part of a debt that would reduce him to beggary and mendicancy forever. He shows that Clifford ordered by his bailiffs in Skipton Castle an acknowledgement by writing that the petitioner bought the garbel tithes of Gargrave, Eshton and Flasby, from Adam de Ayrminne for ... paid at Michaelmas lately past, which writing he sealed together with Richard and Adam Faunell ... the guarantors and principal debtors through the severity of their lordship and their malice by which the said Adam de Ayrminne [...] the petitioner from the said debt.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let him defend himself through the law of the land.
- Places mentioned
- Skipton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Gargrave, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Eshton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Flasby, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- [Roger de Clifford], late Lord of Skipton Castle
- Adam de Ayrminne
- Richard Faunell
- Adam Faunell.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable, by internal reference, to the period after seizure of the lands of Clifford following the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322.
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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 5348
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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/C9063041/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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