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Laurence de Pavelly. de Pavelly Laurence King and council. Pavelly requests that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/160/7984

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Reference
SC 8/160/7984
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
Laurence de Pavelly.
Name(s)
de Pavelly, Laurence
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Pavelly requests that the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer be commanded to discharge him of a rent demanded from him by summons of the Exchequer for an assart of his ancestor on the manor of Paulerspury made when the manor was in the forest of Whittlewood. The manor is no longer in the forest, and following an earlier petition and inquisition the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to discharge him but have not done so.
Nature of endorsement
Let the inquisition be brought into Chancery, and the chancellor is to call the wise people of the council, and the inquisition is to be viewed and let justice be done.
Places mentioned
Pirye (Paulerspury), Northamptonshire
Whittlewood, [Northamptonshire].
People mentioned
Robert de Pavelly, ancestor of the petitioner
Geoffrey le Scrop (Scrope)
John de Cantebrugg (Cambridge)
John de Radenhale
Robert de Daventre (Daventry).
Note
The petition is dated to 1330 as copy of the original petition can be found amongst other petitions copied by Matthew Hale assigned to the parliament of November 1330 (Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp.43b-44a (no.59)).
Related material

Another petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/66/3270

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.43b-44a (no.59) (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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.59 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210176/

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