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John of Yarm, prior of Kirkham. Yarm John King and council. prior of Kirkham The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/162/8081

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Reference
SC 8/162/8081
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
John of Yarm, prior of Kirkham.
Name(s)
Yarm, John
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
prior of Kirkham
Nature of request
The prior request that the king will be advised of his rights, and that the prior not be disinherited as they have held the manor of Carham from time out of memory, but Hauden, of the allegiance of the land of Scotland has entered and occupied part of the manor amounting to 4 carucates of land and attached them to the lordship of Scotland.
Nature of endorsement
[Response endorsed twice, one in an apparently later more cursive hand].Let keepers of the peace be assigned upon the Marches both of the parts of Carlisle as of Northumberland, and let it be directed to the king of Scotland that he assign keepers, and that those who made the chevauchee [be made to come] and do right to the complainants, and the things that are not able to be determined be sent to one of the kings, and that by the councils of those parts thus it is able to be done.
Places mentioned
Kirkham, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Carham, Northumberland
Scotland
Hamelake (Helmsley), [North Riding of Yorkshire]
Carlisle, [Cumberland]
Northumberland
Scottish Marches.
People mentioned
[William] de Hauden
Walter Espek (Espec)
William de Ros (Roos) of Hamelake.
Note
The petition is dated to 1330 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held at Westminster in November in 4 Edw. III (1330) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.42a (no.53)).
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.42a (no.53) (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. 53 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293925/

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