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William la Latymer (Latimer). Latymer (Latimer) William King and council. William...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/86/4271

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Reference
SC 8/86/4271
Date
[? 1320]
Description
Petitioners
William la Latymer (Latimer).
Name(s)
Latymer (Latimer), William
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
William la Latymer states that he held his manor of Wotton of the Earl of Gloucester and his heirs, by the service of one knight's fee and suit of court at his manor of Bletchingley, but that the recent purparty of the Gloucester inheritance has allotted his service for Wotton to Hugh le Despenser, and Bletchingley to Hugh Daudele: with the result that he is being distrained to do suit of court at Bletchingley, while Despenser wants him to do suit of court somewhere else entirely. He asks that this error in the purparty might be corrected by decision of parliament as to where he should do suit of court, so that he is not obliged to do it twice for one manor.
Nature of endorsement
If he is wrongly distrained, he is to sue for a remedy in court, at common law.
Places mentioned
Wodytone (Wotton), Surrey
Bletchingley, [Surrey].
People mentioned
Hugh le Despenser the son
Hugh Daudele (Audley) the son.
Note
This petition can be dated to after 1314 b CIPM, vol. V, p.345 (presumably the death of the Earl of Gloucester). However, the division of his lands was completed later: Edward II took the homage of the husbands of the three heiresses in 1317. A note inserted into this file, written by R. L. Atkinson on 3 May 1932, reads, 'Nos. 4270-4300 are copied in R.C. Transcripts I 156, and apparently from part of an original file of petitions to the parliament of Michaelmas 1320. Cf. Parl. Proc. (Chancery) 5/4'. C 49/5/4 is merely a label, 'The petitions of William de Herlaston from the King's parliament held at Westminster at the octave of Michaelmas in his fourteenth year, which were answered by the auditors of petitions, delivered into Chancery to be expedited': nevertheless, this petition is tentatively dated to 1320, as many of those in the file that can be dated seem to come from that year.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5212
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148813/

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