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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger Lestrange of Knockin. Lestrange Roger King and council. The petitioner seeks...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2867
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This record is about the Roger Lestrange of Knockin. Lestrange Roger King and council. The petitioner seeks... dating from [c. 1330-c. 1331] 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 8/58/2867
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330-c. 1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger Lestrange of Knockin.
- Name(s)
- Lestrange, Roger
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks recovery of the village of Melverley in the March of Wales. He shows that John Lestrange of Knockin and Isolde his wife held the village to them and the heirs of their bodies, and the petitioner is their son and heir. Isolde survived John and died seised of the village. After her death Mortimer seized the township because Isolde held it of him, and has kept it until now, as the township is seized into the king's hands with the other tenements of the earl.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be ordered before the king, and there, when the king's sergeants have been summoned and the reasons heard, let justice be done.
- Places mentioned
- Knockin, [Shropshire]
- Melverley [Shropshire].
- People mentioned
- John Lestrange of Knockin, father of the petitioner
- Isolde [Lestrange], wife of John Lestrange
- Roger Mortimer, Earl of March.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The date is that suggested by Petitions Relating to Wales, p.84.
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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 4772
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.84 (summary of petition and references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063087/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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