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Arnold de Percy. de Percy Arnold King and council. Arnold de Percy makes six complaints...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/66/3254
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This record is about the Arnold de Percy. de Percy Arnold King and council. Arnold de Percy makes six complaints... dating from [c. 1285] 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 8/66/3254
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1285]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Arnold de Percy.
- Name(s)
- de Percy, Arnold
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Arnold de Percy makes six complaints against his younger brother William and requests a remedy. He states that after committing these trespasses, William has purchased a protection to evade accountability.1) He complains that William has mistreated their father, who is unable to look after himself, and demised him of his lands.2) He complains that William tried to provoke discord between him and his father and requests a remedy from the king's court.3) He complains that William seized a fish-pond that their father had given him, and took the fish with force and arms. He requests a remedy.4) He complains that William had two squires seize the man who looked after Arnold's equipment at Kildale.5) He states that William the younger has not paid his father the rent he owes him for the manor of Ormesby.6) He states that he has also not paid his father the rent for the manor of Crathorne.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Each petition is answered on the face]1) The Escheator is to be ordered to seize the land and to hand it over to the custody of someone who is to guard the father, who is unable to look after himself, honorably.2) A writ.3) A writ.4) He is to be imprisoned. He is to have a writ.5) The father is to distrain or to acquire a writ.6) The father is to distrain or to acquire a writ.
- Places mentioned
- Kildale, [North Riding of] Yorkshire
- Ormesby, [North Riding of] Yorkshire
- Crathorne, [North Riding of] Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- William [de Percy], brother of petitioner
- William [de Percy], father of petitioner
- John de Kyrkeby
- Marmaduke de Twenge (Thwing).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1279-88 p.381 is dated 22 January 1285, and would seem to suggest that at this stage William has been cleared of the accusations against him.However, CCW 1244-1326 p.26 is dated 28 February 1285. The petition would seem to date from about this period.The letters of attorney in CPR 1281-92 pp.158-9 are dated 30 April 1285, and the protection is dated 1 May.CIPM, vol. III, no.233 states that William de Percy the younger died in Wales on the Friday before St Mark, 23 Edward I (April 1295).
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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 6680
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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)
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- Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.26 (order to do nothing about the lands which William de Percy the father gave to William de Percy the son)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1279-1288, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.381 (order to the Escheator north of the Trent to deliver the manors to William de Percy the younger)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. III, 20-28-Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1912), no.233 (inquisition following the death of William de Percy the younger)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), pp.158-9 (letters of attorney and protection for three years, for William de Percy the younger, going to Jerusalem)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107018/
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