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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John (de Slegile (Sleagill)), son of Adam de Slegile. de Slegile (Sleagill) John...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/74/3692
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This record is about the John (de Slegile (Sleagill)), son of Adam de Slegile. de Slegile (Sleagill) John... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1325] 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 8/74/3692
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John (de Slegile (Sleagill)), son of Adam de Slegile.
- Name(s)
- de Slegile (Sleagill), John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Slegile requests that he can have a justice to enquire by the good people of Westmorland since Slegile has nothing for his sustenance, or that the default made by his father will be released, and that he be able to answer in chief. His father was impleaded for 100s. from and in Tebay by Cressingham, but knowing nothing of the plea made default, for which default the lands were seized by the king. Before his father could do anything he died in the king's service in Scotland.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have a writ of Chancery to make the record come before the king.
- Places mentioned
- Tebay, [Westmorland]
- York
- Westmorland
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- Hugh de Cressingham, Justice in eyre
- Adam de Slegile (Sleagill), father of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Tentatively dated to the first quarter of the fourteenth century on the basis of the hand and the floruit of Hugh Cressingham.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/176/8799
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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 7376
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107466/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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