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William de Slengesby (Slingsby), forester of the forest of Knaresborough. de Slengesby...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/172/8560
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This record is about the William de Slengesby (Slingsby), forester of the forest of Knaresborough. de Slengesby... dating from [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 8/172/8560
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Slengesby (Slingsby), forester of the forest of Knaresborough.
- Name(s)
- de Slengesby (Slingsby), William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- forester of the forest of Knaresborough
- Nature of request
- Slengesby requests a writ of oyer and terminer with Scrope, Ward and Laton as justices concerning the actions of Clotherholme and Stokesley who broke into his house, assaulted his wife and children, and carried away his goods and chattels.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have a writ of oyer and terminer by fine made before the justices, or two of them, Scrope being one.
- Places mentioned
- Knaresborough forest, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- People mentioned
- John de Clotherum (Clotherholme)
- Robert de Stokesleye (Stokesley)
- Geoffrey le Scrop (Scrope), justice
- Simon Ward, justice
- Thomas de Laton, justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1330 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to the parliament held at Westminster after the feast of St Katherine (November 1330) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.32b (no.10)).
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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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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Children
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.32b (no.10) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- 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.31-51, no.10 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294425/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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