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John de Billinggeye, son and heir of Walter de Billinggeye. de Billinggeye John King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/170/8452

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Reference
SC 8/170/8452
Date
[? c. 1324]
Description
Petitioners
John de Billinggeye, son and heir of Walter de Billinggeye.
Name(s)
de Billinggeye, John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Billinggeye requests that the moiety of the manor of Runham be delivered to him with the issues taken from it as he has been kept out of the inheritance because the suit due for the moiety which is a petty sergeanty held of the king by his father was not made for the petitioner.1)
Nature of endorsement
He should go into Chancery and the process should be brought there and examined, and let justice be done on it.2) Coram magno consilio because . . . in Magna Carta.
Places mentioned
Runham, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
Walter de Billinggeye, father of the petition.
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. III, Edw II, 1319-1327, (Public Record Office, 1913), pp.267-8 (order to deliver a third of the manor to the petitioner)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.341a (no.13) (another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294300/

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