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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Gerard de Wachesham. de Wachesham Gerard King and council. Stanstead, Suffolk honour...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/77/3847
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This record is about the Gerard de Wachesham. de Wachesham Gerard King and council. Stanstead, Suffolk honour... dating from [? 1301-? 1303] 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 8/77/3847
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1301-? 1303]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Gerard de Wachesham.
- Name(s)
- de Wachesham, Gerard
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Places mentioned
- Stanstead, Suffolk
- honour of Bolonye (Boulogne)
- Haghele, (Haughley), Suffolk
- Scotland.
- Nature of request
- Gerard de Wachesham states that he holds the manor of Stanstead in Suffolk of the honour of Boulogne in Haughley by a knight's fee and suit of court, and nothing else of the king in chief, and that he has done service in Scotland for the fee by distraint and duress, contrary to the form of the Great Charter. He asks that the tenancy of the manor might be proved by inquest or by Domesday Book or the Book of Fees, so that he might be discharged of this service.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered by writ of Chancery that, when they have examined Domesday Book and the Book of Fees, if they can establish by examination of them, or in some other legitimate way, that the contents of the petition are true, then they are to do justice to the aforesaid Gerard on this matter.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '? c. 1301-3' with reference to Palgrave, 'Parliamentary Writs', vol. I, p.354, where Gerard appears in a writ for military service. If this is the service mentioned in the petition, then a date of 1301-3 would seem about right, but this is by no means necessarily the correct campaign. The heads of this family were almost invariably known as Gerard in this period.
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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 8837
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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/C9107621/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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