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Richard de Grey. de Grey Richard King and council. Grey requests grace and remedy...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/114/5661

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This record is about the Richard de Grey. de Grey Richard King and council. Grey requests grace and remedy... dating from [c. 1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/114/5661
Date
[c. 1330]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Grey.
Name(s)
de Grey, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Grey requests grace and remedy as he has sued for at many parliaments for the manor of Overstone, demanding the same as his right and heritage but, though a commission has been held, the process is long delayed before the justices.
Nature of endorsement
He should sue his process if he wishes according to the law.
Places mentioned
Overstone, [Northamptonshire].
People mentioned
Lady Mautravers.
Note
Dated to 1334 in Rot. Parl., vol. II, p. 88; but notes on the guard state that it is more probably of c. 1330, by reference to SC 8/48/2400 and SC 8/258/12853.
Related material

For an earlier petition on the same matter see SC 8/48/2400

For a related petition see SC 8/258/12853

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3800
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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.88a (no.63) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150334/

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