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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of Evendon, Finchampstead, Farley, Arborfield and Newland. King and Council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/167/8315
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This record is about the People of Evendon, Finchampstead, Farley, Arborfield and Newland. King and Council.... dating from [? c. 1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/167/8315
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of Evendon, Finchampstead, Farley, Arborfield and Newland.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request remedy, stating the Maltravers, sitting as a justice of the forest in the forest eyre at Windsor, has deprived them of their rights of common at Langenhurst, claiming that it pertains to the manor of Barkham.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let people be assigned to enquire whether the said people are accustomed to have common, and when and why they were ousted, and let this inquest be returned into chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Yeingdon (Evendon), [Berkshire]
- Finchampstead, [Berkshire]
- Farley, [Berkshire]
- Erbourghfeld (Arborfield), [Berkshire]
- Newland, [Berkshire]
- Langenhurst, [Berkshire]
- Berkam (Barkham), [Berkshire]
- Windsor Forest.
- People mentioned
- John de Mautravers (Maltravers), justice of the forest.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? c.1330, on the basis of CFR 1327-37, p.233, a grant of Mautravers' lands following his forfeiture. The link between the two is unclear, but the petition is certainly likely to have followed on from Mautravers' forfeiture.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.233 (grant of the keeping of Mautravers' lands in Barkham to Robert Bullok, in the king's hands following Mautravers' forfeiture)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294160/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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