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Richard de Somery. de Somery Richard King and council. [The petition is damaged and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/172/8572

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This record is about the Richard de Somery. de Somery Richard King and council. [The petition is damaged and... dating from [c. 1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/172/8572
Date
[c. 1327]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Somery.
Name(s)
de Somery, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[The petition is damaged and largely illegible, the gaps being filled from SC 8/15/718, a duplicate of this petition].Somery shows that he was in the peace of the king and had the manor of Bygrave. By the accusation and procurement of certain ill-wishers certain men, namely Prestbury and others of the county of Hertford came to the manor and took his goods and chattels to the value of £200 and were held by Baldock, though he was not of their affinity. He requests grace and remedy. He further requests that whereas Baldock has been granted the keeping of the lands of the heir of Hugh Bigod in Orwell until he is of age, that he can have this keeping in restitution and allowance of the goods and chattels taken from him.
Nature of endorsement
[The responses are largely illegible].1) Concerning the first . . . chattels . . .2) Concerning . . . the king.
Places mentioned
Bygrave, [Hertfordshire]
Orwell, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned
[Robert] de Prestebury (Prestbury)
[Robert de Baldoc (Baldock)]
Hugh Bygod (Bigod).
Note
This petition seems to date late in the reign of Edward II, or more likely early in the reign of Edward III, as the petitioner is trying to get a wardship for wrongs done to him in which the chancellor Robert Baldock was involved though apparently not complicit. 1327 seems more likely, though whether this petition is contemporary with its duplicate, an earlier attempt at remedy, or a resubmission of the same petition is not clear. The petition is damaged in a very similar way to SC 8/172/8572, and that petition appears to date to 1327.
Related material

For a duplicate of this petition differently endorsed see SC 8/15/718

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/C9294437/

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