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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Laurence de Preston. de Preston Laurence King and council. Preston requests remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/173/8640
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This record is about the Laurence de Preston. de Preston Laurence King and council. Preston requests remedy... dating from [1280] 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 8/173/8640
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1280]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Laurence de Preston.
- Name(s)
- de Preston, Laurence
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Preston requests remedy as the king's ministers at Rockingham castle have cut his wood of Gretton and taken it to the castle, and the wood is destroyed and he is unable to pay his farm.Copy of a charter of King John granting the manor of Gretton to Walter de Preston, dated 13 September.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have a writ in Chancery to the steward of the Forest between the bridges of Oxford and Stamford to make complete remedy upon the contents in the petition and to make amends for the damage done to the petitioner by the king's ministers.
- Places mentioned
- Rockingham, [Northamptonshire]
- Gretton, [Northamptonshire]
- Ludgershall, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- John, King of England
- Walter de Preston
- Geoffrey Fitz Peter
- Hugh de Neville
- William Briwer
- William de Cantelupe
- Simon de la Pate
- Hugh de Well, archdeacon of Wells.
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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 and Latin
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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 Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1205 (inquisition concerning the activities of the king's ministers in the petitioner's woods)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.35b-6a (no.30) (extensive pleadings relating to this and another on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294506/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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