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Prior and Convent of Lenton. King and council. The petitioners seek the return of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/57/2834

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SC 8/57/2834
Date
[c. 1332]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and Convent of Lenton.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioners seek the return of certain wagons for the carriage of wood in Bestwood Forest and the confirmation of the terms of their foundation charter, made of the Honour of Peveril and confirmed by kings of England. They state that Eland and Strellay demanded that the petitioners grant an allowance to Humphrey le Ferrour as an order from the king, which they refused and showed their charters in answer. Nevertheless, Eland and Strellay deprived the petitioners of certain wagons in Bestwood Forest.
Nature of endorsement
Let them have a writ in chancery to those who made the deprivation, that they [the petitioners] to have right and reason and by their charters, and let them make further process.
Places mentioned
Lenton, [Nottinghamshire]
Honour of Peveril, [Derbyshire]
Nottingham Castle, [Nottinghamshire]
Bestwood Forest, [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned
William de Eland, Constable of Nottingham Castle
Richard de Strellay (Strelley), Warden of Bestwood Forest
Humphrey le Ferrour.
Note
A terminus a quo is established by the grant of a corrody to Ferrour in 1332 (CCR 1330-3, p. 595), which is referred to in the petition.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter, see SC 8/242/12055

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4804
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.595 (grant of corrody at Lenton to Ferrour)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063054/

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