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Thomas Wake of Liddel. Wake Thomas King and council. Wake requests restoration of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/156/7790

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Reference
SC 8/156/7790
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Wake of Liddel.
Name(s)
Wake, Thomas
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Wake requests restoration of his Stuteville inheritance by the king's grace as it was taken into the hand of King Henry III and the petitioner has been unable to sue for it.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.
Places mentioned
Liddel, [Cumberland]
Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Boroughbridge, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Henry II, King of England
William Destotevill (Stuteville)
Robert de Stotevill (Stuteville), son and heir of William de Stuteville
John, King of England
Nicholas Destotevill (Stuteville)
Eustace de Stotevill (Stuteville), son and heir of Robert de Stuteville
Henry III, King of England
Joan, daughter and heir of Nicholas de Stutevill
Baldwin [Wake], son and heir of Joan
John [Wake], son and heir of Baldwin Wake and father of the petitioner.
Note
If the Hale manuscript dating of the group of petitions, of which this is one, is correct then this petition dates to 1348.
Related material

For transcripts of charters relating to this petition see SC 8/12/579B

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/12/575

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/170/8466

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
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), pp.194b-5a (no.78) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209982/

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