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? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ to the sheriff of York to restore the lands...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2967

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ to the sheriff of York to restore the lands... dating from [1314] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/60/2967
Date
[1314]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a writ to the sheriff of York to restore the lands and tenements, goods and chattels to Lascy and any distraints made on him.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the justices within written that they should enquire if the late sheriff lately seized into the king's hand the many goods and chattels which were Robert de Lacy's which amounted to the value of £67 15s. 4d.. And if thus then what and of what value, and how and in what manner, and if they were not seized then to whose hand the goods came before they were seized into the hand of the king, and in whose hand they exist and how and in what manner, and they should do what they see ought to be done for the king. The late sheriff is not to be charged beyond what he was able to seize.
Places mentioned
Dickering wapentake, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Fyveleye (Filey), [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Fryton, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
Spalding, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England
[John Malebys], Sheriff of York
Robert de Lascy, late Bailiff of Dickering Wapentake
John de Donecastre (Doncaster), Justice of the king
John de Garton of Fritton, Justice of the king
Ralph Fitz William, Justice of the king
William le Conestable, Justice of the king
Hugh de Louther, Justice of the king
John de Creppyng, Justice of the king.
Note
The writ is dated in its dating clause to 24 October 1314.
Related material

For the petition to which this writ was formerly attached see SC 8/60/2966

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5640
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.127 (writ to some of the justices to proceed and complete their commission concerning the wreck and its merchandise)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063187/

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