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Adam de la Forde (Ford). Forde (Ford) Adam King. Forde requests grace concerning...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/111/5540

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Reference
SC 8/111/5540
Date
[c. 1300-c. 1325]
Description
Petitioners
Adam de la Forde (Ford).
Name(s)
Forde (Ford), Adam
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Forde requests grace concerning a piece of ground pertaining to his manor of Hale whereof one part is wood and the other marsh [giving detailed bounds], and he requests that it be . . . by Randolf, and the other part within Moinesceles bounds by Montague, and that this thing be enquired of by good men.1)
Nature of endorsement
Southampton. Coram consilio.2) He should sue a writ of Chancery to the justice of the Forest and John Abrel to enquire in the presence of the bailiffs of the queen of the truth of the premises and certify the king.
Places mentioned
Hale, Hampshire.
People mentioned
[...] Randolf, late steward of the New Forest
John de Montagu (Montague), now steward of the New Forest.
Note
Uncertain date; the hand suggests that the petition dates from the first quarter of the fourteenth century.
Related material

For transcript, see p.31 of PRO 31/7/92

For another petition by Forde and his wife see SC 8/47/2327

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3502
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150206/

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