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Executors of Edward III, King of England. King and lords in parliament. The executors...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/109/5412

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SC 8/109/5412
Date
[1378]
Description
Petitioners
Executors of Edward III, King of England.
Addressees
King and lords in parliament.
Nature of request
The executors of Edward III were enfeoffed with certain manors and lands in order to fulfil the former king's will; but the present king has ordered that no payments be made by them on the receipts from these lands and manors without his express instruction; they pray remedy.
Nature of endorsement
The response is appended to the schedule annexed to this, which was made and delivered to the clerk of parliament by the justices.
People mentioned
Edward [III], King of England
[Richard II], King of England.
Note
This is apparently the petition (or a copy of the petition) presented in the Gloucester parliament of 1378, referred to in the parliament roll of 1379 when the matter was again raised (Rot. Parl. III, pp. 60-1). The case is discussed by Given-Wilson, 'Richard II and his Grandfather's Will', English Historical review CXIII (1978), 320-37 (though he omits to identify the original of the 1378 petition).
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/100/4989

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3142
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.p.60b-61b (reference, in a later parliament, to this petition as having been made in the Gloucester parliament of 1378)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149986/

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