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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Stoke, bachelor. de Stoke John King and council. Stoke requests that a remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/72/3597
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/72/3597
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1361]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Stoke, bachelor.
- Name(s)
- de Stoke, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Stoke requests that a remedy be ordained for him for St Maur granted to him the lands that he had in Chelworth and Knoyle in tail of which he was peaceably seised, St Maur keeping a life interest. On St Maur's death the lands and tenements were taken into the king's hand by the escheator following inquisitions taken by the procurement of individuals who did not know of Stoke's seisin. Stoke has taken a writ of Chancery but cannot recover the lands because of the inquisition and because the escheator will not act without a special order of the king under the privy seal.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be ordered into Chancery and the process mentioned by the petition be viewed and if an inquisition has found for the king, and the plaintiff has not had a writ to enquire better on this in response to an earlier petition, then a commission is to be made to good people to enquire anew of this, and upon this being returned let justice be done to the king and the party.
- Places mentioned
- Chelworth, Wiltshire
- Knolle (Knoyle), Wiltshire.
- People mentioned
- Thomas de St Maur (Seymor)
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to 1361 as a commission was issued to enquire into the matter on 1 May 1361 (CPR 1361-4, p.68).
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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 7253
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XII, 1361-1364, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.68 (commission to examine the matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107371/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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