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William de Prendregest (Prendregast). de Prendregest (Prendregast) William King....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/173/8626
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/173/8626
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1357]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Prendregest (Prendregast).
- Name(s)
- de Prendregest (Prendregast), William
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Prendregest requests a commission to examine whether he is forfeit so that he is not ousted from his lands by false allegation. His father forfeited for adhering to the Scots, he holding lands and tenements in Cornhill by courtesy of England and the bishop of Durham granted the lands to William de Denum believing the petitioner to have forfeited as well, though he was only a minor at the time. Prendregest recovered the lands by an assize of mort d'ancestor after his father's death, but they have been taken into the king's hand by a false allegation.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let certain people be assigned to enquire of the points contained in this petition, and when the inquisition has been returned, let right be done.
- Places mentioned
- Cornhill on Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Norhamshire, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- William de Prendregast, father of the petitioner
- Isabel de Cornhall (Cornhill), late wife of William de Prendregast, and mother of the petitioner
- William de Denum
- Edmund [de Denum], son of William de Denum
- Louis [de Beaumont], bishop of Durham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1350-1351 by Fraser (Northern Petitions, pp.274-5 (no.205)). Fraser noted that William de Denum died in 1350 so that Prendregest's recovery must have been after this. SC 8/173/8627 suggests that the petitioner was 30 years or more when he recovered, and SC 8/173/8626 records that the petitioner was only 7 at the time of his father's forfeiture. As Denum was granted the Cornhill inheritance by Louis Beaumont, bishop of Durham in 1328 after the Prendregest forfeiture, the petitioner being 30 years old or more would place this petition in c. 1351. However, Fraser's dating seems to be erroneous as the petition would seem to be nearly contemporary with SC 8/173/8627 which seems to date to c. 1357 when the question of Prendregest's allegiance to the Scots was clearly a current issue (CPR 1354-8, pp.613-4).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the petition alleging that Prendregast had lived in the faith of the Scots and that the lands should be forfeit, see SC 8/173/8627
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. X, 1354-1358, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.613-4 (commission of oyer and terminer and order to arrest Predregest)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.274-5 (no.205) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294492/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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