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Stephen de Stokes. de Stokes Stephen King and council. Stephen de Stokes states that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/141/7006

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SC 8/141/7006
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Stephen de Stokes.
Name(s)
de Stokes, Stephen
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Stephen de Stokes states that he has a wood enclosed among the woods of the knights of the country, adjoining the King's forest of King's Cliffe but not part of the forest, and that, although the King has granted by his charter that each man may make profitable use of his own wood, the foresters of the forest are preventing him from cutting down and carrying away wood, and distrain his people, and take large sums of money from them, so that he cannot use the wood to his profit. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.Concerning the contents [of this petition], the King has ordained and spoken his will; and he is to sue a writ in Chancery on this.
Places mentioned
King's Cliffe forest, [Northamptonshire].
Note
A Latin summary of this petition appears on a roll of petitions from the Lent parliament of 1305 (Memoranda de Parliamento pp.155-6 (no.246)).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.155-6 (no.246) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 257 (full edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209140/

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