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? No Petitioner named 1) Copy of a writ of Edward I commanding the coroner of Northumberland...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/170/8484

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Reference
SC 8/170/8484
Date
[c. 1305]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
1) Copy of a writ of Edward I commanding the coroner of Northumberland to send the tenor of the inquisition taken by him into the death of Robert de Redware without delay.2) Copy of the inquisition taken at Stamfordham before Tyndale and Calhird where it was found by the jury of the neighbouring vills that William de Heddon and Isabel de Redware feloniously killed Robert de Redware, dumping the body in a sack at Elland Bridge, and that Henry, John and Agnes de Heddon helped to carry away Redware's goods.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram toto consilio. And the inquisition was returned into Chancery before the council.2) The Chancellor, Brabazon, Berwick and Heigham should view the inquisition and do justice.3) Let it be ordered to the sheriff and coroners that the goods of the deceased that they arrested be delivered to the executors if there be any, and then they should be delivered to his children.
Places mentioned
Northumberland
Stamfordham, [Northumberland]
Fenwick, [Northumberland]
Heugh, [Northumberland]
Hawkwell, [Northumberland]
East Matfen, [Northumberland]
Ingoe, [Northumberland]
Black Heddon, [Northumberland]
Nesbit, [Northumberland]
Dalton, [Northumberland]
Eland Bridge, [Northumberland]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Edward I, King of England
William de Tyndale, coroner of Northumberland
Margaret [de Redwar (Redware)], one of the daughters of Robert de Redware
Denise [de Redwar (Redware)], one of the daughters of Robert de Redware
Robert de Redwar (Redware), late father of the petitioners
Isabel [de Redwar (Redware)], wife of Robert de Redware
William de Heddon
John Calhird, under-sheriff of Northumberland
Henry de Heddon, brother of William de Heddon
John de Heddon, brother of William de Heddon
Agnes de Heddon, sister of William de Heddon
[William Hamilton], chancellor
Roger le Brabanzon (Brabazon)
John de Berwyk (Berwick)
Roger de Heigham.
Note
The copies date with the petition to c. 1305 on the basis that the petition is fairly close in date to the copies of the writ and inquisition. The writ is dated in its dating clause to 18 March 1305 (33 Edw. I), and the inquisition is dated to 10 January 1305 (33 Edw. I).
Related material

For the petition which resulted in this writ and inquisition, see SC 8/261/13005

For the petition to which these copies were formerly appended, see SC 8/170/8483

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.56-9 (no.44) (full edition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294333/

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