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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Ralph de Neville. de Neville Ralph King and Council. Ralph de Neville requests remedy,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/129/6408
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/129/6408
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ralph de Neville.
- Name(s)
- de Neville, Ralph
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- Ralph de Neville requests remedy, stating that Thomas Rokeby, Scop and Lythum broke into his park at Raby and hunted and took his animals. He has sued them in the Bishop's court, and they have been outlawed, but he can have no recovery because they have no lands in the bishopric.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ be sent to the Bishop of Durham to send the record of the process into Chancery, and then let a writ ordering the arrest of the outlaws be sent to the sheriffs of the counties where they are staying.
- Places mentioned
- Cotherstone, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Yorkshire
- Raby, County Durham
- Durham, [County Durham].
- People mentioned
- Thomas [de Rokeby], son of Robert de Rokeby
- Robert de Rokeby
- William Scop of Cotherstone
- John de Lythum
- Bishop of Durham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1337 by Fraser, citing the history of the case from the registers of the palatinate of Durham. The original suit was to be heard in June 1336, and in June 1337 Neville obtained a writ to the sheriff of Yorkshire to arrest the outlaws.
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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 6026
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.236-7 (no.174) (full edition of petition and response, with discussion of the case and references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208587/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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