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Richard Trotter. Trotter Richard King. Trotter requests an increase of 1d. a day...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/178/8866

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This record is about the Richard Trotter. Trotter Richard King. Trotter requests an increase of 1d. a day... dating from [1381] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/178/8866
Date
[1381]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Trotter.
Name(s)
Trotter, Richard
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Trotter requests an increase of 1d. a day for his wages for the office of being one of the keepers of the wood [launde] of Plumpton in the forest of Inglewood, and that he grant that he may enclose 10 acres of land between Todilgill and the Black Beck, and between the close of Morton and Wolloaks, whereof the king has not had a profit, so that he can build a little lodge to live in, as he only has the wages for the office to live on as he had to pay a £40 ransom because he and his goods and chattels were taken by the Scots on the last chevauchee of the earl of Douglas.
Nature of endorsement
[On face].Committed to the council.[On dorse].He should have a writ of ad quod damnum on the second point of this.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Plumpton, [Cumberland]
Inglewood forest, [Cumberland]
Penrith, [Cumberland]
Scotland
Todilgill [unidentified], [Cumberland]
Black Beck, [Cumberland]
Morton, [Cumberland]
Wollakes (Wooloaks), [Cumberland]
Scotland.
People mentioned
[William Douglas], earl of Douglas.
Note
The petition dates to 1381 as the petitioner was granted the right to enclose the 10 acres on 19 April 1381 (CPR 1377-81, p.620). The petition has similar responses on the face as SC 8/178/8863 and 7, so that it is likely that all three are contemporary.
Related material

For the inquisition ad quod damnum, see C 143/397/6

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.620 (grant that the petitioner may enclose the 10 acres)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294734/

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