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Walter Leste of Dunton; Hugh le Carpentier (Carpenter). Leste; Carpentier (Carpenter)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7853

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This record is about the Walter Leste of Dunton; Hugh le Carpentier (Carpenter). Leste; Carpentier (Carpenter)... dating from [1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/158/7853
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Walter Leste of Dunton; Hugh le Carpentier (Carpenter).
Name(s)
Leste; Carpentier (Carpenter), Walter; Hugh
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Leste and Carpentier request remedy and that they are delivered of their goods as Hauville has thrown them off their land in Dunton and sold their goods because they purchased a writ concerning the grievous damage he has inflicted on them by demanding works from them that they have not customarily done as sokemen of that manor.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Dunton, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
Thomas de Hauville (Hawille).
Note
The petition appears to date to 1320, a date that fits both with evidence in the patent rolls and Chancery warrants, and with another petition and writ on this matter (CCW 1244-1326, p.510; CPR 1317-21, p.538; SC 8/3/135A and B).
Related material

For an earlier petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/3/135A

For an earlier writ on the same matter see SC 8/3/135B

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.510 (mandate to the keeper of the seal to deal with a writing of the people of Dunton about hardships done to them concerning their tenure)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.538 (commission of oyer and terminer into the matter on behalf of another tenant)
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