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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert de Grendon. de Grendon Robert King and council. Grendon requests restoration...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/114/5689
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This record is about the Robert de Grendon. de Grendon Robert King and council. Grendon requests restoration... dating from [1318-1320] 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 8/114/5689
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318-1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert de Grendon.
- Name(s)
- de Grendon, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Grendon requests restoration of his lands and tenements in Westmorland as they have been taken into the king's hand because Grendon resided for a long time among the Scots, when this was as a consequence of his capture at Bannockburn in the king's service, and his inability to raise a ransom because the Scots had burnt his land.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let Barton and Skelton be assigned to enquire of the truth of the matter and whether he aided the Scots or not, and return the inquisition into Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Bannockburn (Stirling), [Stirlingshire, Scotland]
- Milburn, Westmorland
- Brampton, Westmorland.
- People mentioned
- Ellen [de Grendon], wife of the petitioner
- Ralph de Crophull (Crophill), escheator north of the Trent
- John de Eure, escheator north of the Trent.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition must date to the period November 1318- Jan 1320 as it refers to Ralph de Crophill still being escheator, and his term ran over this period (List of Escheators, p.3).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.39 of PRO 31/7/95
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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 3848
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.422 (order to the escheator not to meddle with the petitioner and his wife's land in Westmorland, and recording that the petitioner was dead))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150362/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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