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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Rector and brethren of Ashridge. King and council. The rector and brethren request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/90/4464
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/90/4464
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Rector and brethren of Ashridge.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The rector and brethren request that the king will vouch to warranty for land and rent in Hemel Hempstead which Cheyndut is claiming as dower from them before the justices. The rector has answered that the land was once the earl of Cornwall's, who enfeoffed an earlier rector, and that the king as heir to the earl ought to warrant this. The earl gave to Cheyndut's late husband the manor of Barford in exchange for the land at Hemel Hempstead.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) He is to sue before Hengham and his colleagues. And justice is to be done by way of voucher to warranty, so that the king warrant according to the terms of the feoffment, and he is to vouch further to warranty etc. There is to be a writ of Chancery on this to the justices that they are to proceed.
- Places mentioned
- Ashridge, [Hertfordshire]
- Hemel Hempstead, [Hertfordshire]
- Barford, Wiltshire.
- People mentioned
- Eleanor [Cheynduth (Cheyndut)], widow of William Cheyndut
- Ralph de Hengham, justice of the Bench
- Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition clearly dates to the period 1301-1307 as it refers to the activities of the late earl of Cornwall who died in September 1300, and is before the end of the reign of Edward I. But the petition probably dates to 1305 as a Latin summary of a counter petition by the rector was enrolled on the parliament roll of Spring 1305 (Memoranda de Parliamento, p. 85 (no. 141)).
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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 279
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.85 (no. 141) (Latin summary of counter petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 147 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149009/
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