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Thomas Wake of Liddel. Wake Thomas King and council. Wake shows that William de Stuteville...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8538

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Reference
SC 8/171/8538
Date
[? 1335]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Wake of Liddel.
Name(s)
Wake, Thomas
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Wake shows that William de Stuteville his ancestor was granted Knaresborough and Boroughbridge by Henry II, which gift was confirmed by successive kings to Stuteville and his ancestors. However Henry III retained them from Eustace de Stuteville, and the Wakes to whom the Stuteville lands descended did not have the power to sue for the same. Wake requests that the king have regard to the charters of the kings and render the tenements to him, that he is not delayed from his right.
Nature of endorsement
Let the rolls and remembrances of the Exchequer and treasury be searched for anything concerning the lands contained in the petition for the king or the parties, and what they find be returned into Chancery. And let the rolls and remembrances of Chancery be searched from the time of King John and after if Robert Destotevill died seised of the lands, and if in the livery of his heritage made to Eustace, the lands were retained in the king's hand, and let justice be done if nothing else can be found.
Places mentioned
Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Boroughbridge, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Cottingham, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Henry II, King of England
William de Stotevill (Stuteville)
Richard I, King of England
Robert de Stotevill (Stuteville), son and heir of William de Stuteville
John, King of England
Eustace de Stotevill (Stuteville), son and heir of Robert de Stuteville
Henry III, King of England
Nicholas [Wake], kinsman and heir of Eustace de Stuteville
John [Wake], son and heir of Nicholas Wake
Baldwin [Wake], son and heir of John Wake
John [Wake], son and heir of Baldwin Wake and father of the petitioner.
Note
If SC 8/12/575 does date to 1335, as the presence of a transcript in Rot. Parl. suggests, then the reference in that petition to this petition being made in the last parliament held at Westminster places this firmly in the parliament assembled there on 19 September 1334. But see also the possibility that SC 8/12/575 dates as early as 1327.
Related material

For transcripts of charters by King Henry II, Richard I and John relating to the other copy of this petition see SC 8/12/579B

For a later petition by the same petitioner reciting this petition in full see SC 8/12/575

For a related petition see SC 8/156/7790

For a related document see SC 8/170/8466

For a duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/12/579A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294403/

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