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Adam de Leycestre (Leicester). de Leycestre (Leicester) Adam [Not specified.] Adam...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/89/4445

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Reference
SC 8/89/4445
Date
[c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
Adam de Leycestre (Leicester).
Name(s)
de Leycestre (Leicester), Adam
Addressees
[Not specified.]
Nature of request
Adam de Leycestre states that Thomas de Atleberge is wrongly withholding from him 10s from a mill.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be decided.It is to be inquired into by the country.Pledges: Robert le Taylur, William de Wynter.
Places mentioned
Lichfield, [Staffordshire].
People mentioned
Thomas de Atleberge, prebendary of Dornford in the church of St Chad of Lichfield
Robert le Taylur (Taylor)
William de Wynter (Winter).
Note
The petition states that Thomas should have paid the money at the feast of St John the Baptist in the King's seventeenth year [1289], and again at the following Michaelmas. The petition would therefore seem to date from c. 1290.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 244
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148989/

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