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Walter de Useflet (Ousefleet) of Yorkshire. de Useflet (Ousefleet) Walter King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/77/3810

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Reference
SC 8/77/3810
Date
[1290]
Description
Petitioners
Walter de Useflet (Ousefleet) of Yorkshire.
Name(s)
de Useflet (Ousefleet), Walter
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Walter de Useflet requests a remedy for £20 demanded of him for a buck he is accused of taking in the Forest of Galtres during the last war in England, when he was a retainer of John de Eyvill, who had the charter of King Henry that he and all his company would be quit of all trespasses committed during the war.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.He is to come to Chancery, and if it can be established by the record of John de Eyvill that he was of his household in time of war, and by the record of the justices of the forest that he was amerced in wartime for a trespass at the same time, he is to have a writ that he is to be quit.
Places mentioned
Yorkshire
Forest of Galtres, [North Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
John de Eyvill
Henry [III], King of England.
Note
A Latin summary of this petition is found on a roll of petitions ascribed to the Easter parliament of 1290 (H.G Richardson and G.O. Sayles, The English Parliament in the Middle Ages, chap. XIX, pp.146-147).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8262
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.58a-b (no.154) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, no. 182 (full edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107584/

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