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Richard Thurger, son of Richard Thurger of Spalding. Thurger Richard King and Council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/167/8337

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Reference
SC 8/167/8337
Date
[1334]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Thurger, son of Richard Thurger of Spalding.
Name(s)
Thurger, Richard
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
Richard, son of Richard Thurger of Spalding requests that the council view in parliament the record of an assize of novel disseisin brought against him and others by Randolf in King's bench in Michaelmas term in the king's seventh year regarding tenements in Spalding. He states that judgment was given against them contrary to the law, and asks that any errors in the judgment which they might find be corrected.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] Richard de Willoughby rendered the judgment.[on dorse] View the record in the next parliament.This is a copy of the charter which ought to have been enrolled in the record.Know that I, William son of Robert de Spalding, give to Margaret and Joan, my daughters, and the legitimate heirs of their bodies, ten acres of land in Spalding, to have etc., under this form, that if both should die, it will revert to the donor.
Places mentioned
Lincolnshire
Spalding, [Lincolnshire]
Kirton, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Richard Thurger of Spalding, father of the petitioner
Robert Randolf of Kirton
Richard de Willoughby
William [de Spalding], son of Robert de Spalding
Robert de Spalding
Margaret [de Spalding], daughter of William de Spalding
Joan [de Spalding], daughter of William de Spalding.
Note
Dated to 1334 in Rot. Parl. II, p.77.
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.77b (edition of petition and response)
  • 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.73-89, no.23 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294182/

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