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Walter de Selby. de Selby Walter King and council. Selby requests restoration of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/74/3660

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Reference
SC 8/74/3660
Date
[1336]
Description
Petitioners
Walter de Selby.
Name(s)
de Selby, Walter
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Selby requests restoration of his lands in the liberty of Durham according to the covenants made between him and Umfraville, Greystoke and Eure for the surrender of Mitford castle whereby they would cause him to have the king's peace and all his lands without loss, although they had been taken into the king's hand as an adherent of the king's enemies. The king granted that the agreement should be held to, and the sheriff of Northumberland and the bishop of Durham were ordered to restore the lands, the sheriff has done so, but the bishop has not done so and has granted them to others.
Nature of endorsement
He should sue to the bishop that he do justice to him. If he will not do this, then he should sue in Chancery to have a writ to the bishop that he do right and sue process as has been used before these hours.
Places mentioned
Mitford, [Northumberland]
Liberty of Durham.
People mentioned
Robert de Umfravyll (Umfraville), Earl of Angus
Ralph de Craistok (Greystoke), Baron of Greystoke
John de Eure
Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham.
Note
The petition dates to 1336 as the copy of a writ formerly attached to it dates to 11 July 1336, and the petition is unlikely to be much later [SC 8/74/3671].
Related material

For the writ formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/74/3661

For a petition from Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham, refusing to return the petitioner's lands, see SC 8/43/2121

For an earlier petition concerning Walter de Selby's lands, see SC 8/8/393

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/8/394

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7212
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.266-8 (no.198) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107434/

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