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John de Stodlegh. de Stodlegh John King and council. Stodlegh requests that he can...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/72/3591

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Reference
SC 8/72/3591
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
John de Stodlegh.
Name(s)
de Stodlegh, John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Stodlegh requests that he can be discharged from the Exchequer for the rent lately demanded from him by Mautravers and his companions, justices in eyre in the pleas of the forest since he does not owe it to the king as when his ancestor took the waste at rent it was within the forest, but it is now no longer within the forest.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the justices of the Forests on this side of the Trent to enquire of the lands contained in the petition and the inquisitions returned into Chancery, and let the king be advised of the cause of the demand of the rent and let justice be done.
Places mentioned
Pewsham Forest, Wiltshire.
People mentioned
John Mautravers, Justice.
Note
The petition dates to around 1330. Another version of this petition survives on the parliament roll for November 1330 with the same response (Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined., p.202 (no.30)). It seems unlikely that this petition can be too distant in date from this, and it is possible that the enrolled copy at E 175/2/16 m 3d is either a summary, or a shorter version submitted at the same time. That roll can be dated through other evidence to 1330.
Related material

For an enrolled summary of the petition see no. 16, m.3d in E 175/2

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7231
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.202 (no.30) (edition of another petition by petitioner making the same request, but with same response)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107365/

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