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Eleanor de Percy. de Percy Eleanor King and council. Yorkshire Scotland Pocklington,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/87/4303

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This record is about the Eleanor de Percy. de Percy Eleanor King and council. Yorkshire Scotland Pocklington,... dating from [? 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/87/4303
Date
[? 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Eleanor de Percy.
Name(s)
de Percy, Eleanor
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Yorkshire
Scotland
Pocklington, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
Nature of request
Eleanor de Percy states that she took the lands of her son's inheritance in Yorkshire, in the King's hand in the name of wardship, on lease, but that all these lands, with the exception of the vill of Pocklington, have been so ruined by two attacks by the Scots that she cannot raise the money from them to pay the farm. She asks that certain people of the King and council's choosing might be assigned to inquire into these damages, and that her farm might be reduced according to what they find.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Note
CPR 1317-21 p.390, is dated 31 July 1321 and seems likely to be the result of SC 8/2/92, rather than of this petition. However, it mentions the result of an inquisition into this matter, which is what this petition asks for, and which may well have been held as a result of it. SC 8/2/92 mentions an earlier petition at York, but that seems to be making a completely different request from this one. CPR 1317-21 pp.166-167 is dated 25 November 1319, but concerns a specific tax: again, it does not seem to be a response to this petition. All this makes it quite likely that this petition can be dated to the parliament of Michaelmas 1320, like many of the rest of the file.
Related material

For another petition by the petitioner on this matter, see SC 8/2/92

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6477
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp. 166-7 (order to supersede collection of the eighteenth of the petitioner's goods in the damaged vills) & 390 (order to discharge the petitioner of certain arrears of her farm, following the result of an inquisition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148845/

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