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Henry Lestormy; Henry Lestormy, son of Henry Lestormy; Margaret Lestormy, wife of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/157/7822

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Reference
SC 8/157/7822
Date
[1334]
Description
Petitioners
Henry Lestormy; Henry Lestormy, son of Henry Lestormy; Margaret Lestormy, wife of Henry Lestormy.
Name(s)
Lestormy; Lestormy; Lestormy, Henry; Henry; Margaret
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The Lestormy and his son and wife request that the profits that pertain to their keepership in the forest of Savernake be enquired of for they are withheld by the justices because they refused to accept that the Lestormys hold the keepership jointly despite the late king's licence, and they request that justice be done to them.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio. They should declare what profits they are.2) Let it be ordered to the justices of the Forest that they inform themselves by the eyres and by other means on the liberties contained in the petition and that they do justice to the parties according to the assize of the Forest, and if they have trouble then they should advise the king.
Places mentioned
Savernake Forest, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
Robert de Ufford, justice of the Forest.
Note
The petition is dated to 1334 as the petition is found amongst petitions in a Hale manuscript and published in Rot. Parl., vol. II ascribed to 1334 (8 Edw. III) (p.78b (no.26)).
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), p.78b (no.26) (full edition of later copy of original 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp. 73-89, no. 26 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210014/

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