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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Leyburn. de Leyburn William King and council. The petitioner seeks the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2878
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This record is about the William de Leyburn. de Leyburn William King and council. The petitioner seeks the... dating from [c. 1277-c. 1307] 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 8/58/2878
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1277-c. 1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Leyburn.
- Name(s)
- de Leyburn, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks the voidance of a feoffement made to his disinheritance contrary to the law of the land by John de Norwood. He shows that he was serving the king in Wales and in his protection when Norwood took a malicious feoffement from the lands of Ermintrude [de Gressy] of a third part of the manor of Herrietishaum, which she did not hold freely in dower. After her death it returns to the petitioner.
- Nature of endorsement
- Action in chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Wales
- Harrietsham, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- John de Norwood
- Stephen de Gressy
- Ermintrude [de Gressy], who was the wife of Stephen de Gressy.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The hand of the petition and its contents suggest that it dates from the reign of Edward I, and refers to events in the Welsh wars of the 1270s and 1280s.
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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 4841
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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/C9063098/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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