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Roger de Somervill. de Somervill Roger Council. Somervill requests allowance for...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/162/8086

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This record is about the Roger de Somervill. de Somervill Roger Council. Somervill requests allowance for... dating from [1323-1325] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/162/8086
Date
[1323-1325]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Somervill.
Name(s)
de Somervill, Roger
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
Somervill requests allowance for the sum that he used to receive from the bailiwick of Strafforth which has all times been in the hand of the sheriffs who have used to take 40 marks each year towards the payment of the farm, but it has now been granted to Wasteneys for life rendering £10 annually and Somervill has a loss of 25 marks to the destruction of the other wapentakes.
Nature of endorsement
He should have a writ in Chancery to the treasurer and barons etc. containing the effect of the petition, that they should enquire of the contents and return the inquisition into the Exchequer and do justice to the plaintiff.
Places mentioned
Strafforth wapentake, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Edmund de Wastenays.
Note
The petition at first glance would appear to date to c. 1311-c. 1316 on the basis of life grants of the bailiwick made to Wasteneys on 26 May 1311 and 24 November 1316 (CFR 1307-19, pp.94, 312-13). However, the petition would only seem to make sense if the petitioner was sheriff of Yorkshire, and he held the office from June 1323 to February 1325, so that it seems safer to date the petition to 1323-1325.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/142/7074

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), pp.94, 312-13 (grants for life to Wasteney of the bailiwick)
  • Calendar of Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer), Michaelmas 1326-Michaelmas 1327, (Public Record Office, 1968), no.585 (order for an inquisition into the matter and to do justice)
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