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? No Petitioner named Copy of an inquisition taken before the Escheator, finding...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/86/4280

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of an inquisition taken before the Escheator, finding... dating from 1319 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/86/4280
Date
1319
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of an inquisition taken before the Escheator, finding that Thomas Petiwill held a messuage in Scarborough of the Prior and convent of Malton, and did not die as an adherent of the Scots, but died in Berwick as a merchant.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
Scotland
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
Ralph de Crophull (Crophill), Escheator North of the Trent
Edward [II], King of England
Ralph Gedge
Walter Gedge
John de Folkton
Geoffrey de Folkton
Robin Gedge
Thomas de Folkyngton
Alan Gerard
William Percy
William de Ampleford (Ampleforth)
William de Nessingwik
Hugh de Wandeford
Walter de Beverlaco (Beverley)
Thomas [Petiwill]
Roger Petiwill of Scarborough
the Prior and convent of Malton
Edward [I], King of England.
Note
The inquisition was held on the Friday after All Saints, 13 Edward II (1319).
Related material

For a copy of the writ authorising this inquisition, see SC 8/86/4279

For the petition to which this inquisition was attached, see SC 8/86/4278

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5874
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.268 (order to the Escheator not to intermeddle further with this messuage, as it has been found that Thomas Petiwill died as a merchant, not as the king's enemy) & p.277 (order to acquit the Prior and convent of the rent for this messuage since 26 October)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148822/

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