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Robert de Walkefare. de Walkefare Robert King and council. Walkefare requests remedy...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/160/7977

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Reference
SC 8/160/7977
Date
[? c. 1314]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Walkefare.
Name(s)
de Walkefare, Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Walkefare requests remedy as during the time that Henry de Isleham was a minor Alan le Bailiff came and accroached a leet of the tenants of Isleham without reason, Walkefare being Isleham's kinsman and heir.
Nature of endorsement
Faithful men should be assigned in Chancery to enquire in the presence etc. of the contents and other things, and when it has been returned into Chancery, let justice be done in the same place.
Places mentioned
Isleham, [Cambridgeshire]
Staploe hundred, [Cambridgeshire]
Fordham, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned
Henry [de Iselham (Isleham)], son of Henry de Isleham
Alan le Bailiff of Fordham, bailiff of Staploe hundred.
Note
Although the petition refers to events in 20 Edward I, the petition is later than that. The guard note suggests a date of? c. 1330 apparently on the basis of an unrelated reference that places Walkefare in possession of Isleham (CPR 1330-4, p.21). Other petitions by Walkefare that relate to this petition do appear to be early Edward III (SC 8/2/85; SC 8/150/7481). However, this petition is very similar to a Latin summary of another petition by Walkefare that dates to 1314, and as the petition is endorsed in Latin, it seems likely that the petition is closer in date to 1314.
Related material

For another petition on the same matter by the same petitioner see SC 8/2/85

For a related document see SC 8/150/7481

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. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.318a (no.127) (Latin summary of a similar and possibly near contemporary petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210169/

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