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John de Crofton of Carlisle. de Crofton John King and Council. The petitioner asks...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4961
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This record is about the John de Crofton of Carlisle. de Crofton John King and Council. The petitioner asks... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/100/4961
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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
- John de Crofton of Carlisle.
- Name(s)
- de Crofton, John
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner asks for a writ in chancery against the current prior of Carlisle and sixteen years worth of profits from lands seized into the wardship of the [previous] prior. He shows that he held his lands in socage and not by the service that gives wardship, which the aforesaid prior took for sixteen years. When the petitioner came of age he wished to purchase a writ of account against the said prior, and before he could obtain it the prior died and he could not have a writ in chancery against his successor.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- At the end of parliament before all the justices and they are to provide and arrange for a certain remedy.2) It is agreed by the council that he is to have writ of account against the successor of the prior who had the wardship.
- Places mentioned
- Carlisle, [Cumberland].
- People mentioned
- Prior of Carlisle.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Firmly datable by reference to Memoranda de Parliamento, pp.158-9 (no.251).
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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 1742
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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), pp.158-9 (no.251) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
- 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. 262 (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149528/
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