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Gilbert de Elsefeld (Elsfield). de Elsefeld (Elsfield) Gilbert King. Elsefeld requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/178/8880

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This record is about the Gilbert de Elsefeld (Elsfield). de Elsefeld (Elsfield) Gilbert King. Elsefeld requests... dating from [? 1318-? 1323] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/178/8880
Date
[? 1318-? 1323]
Description
Petitioners
Gilbert de Elsefeld (Elsfield).
Name(s)
de Elsefeld (Elsfield), Gilbert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Elsefeld requests that the chancellor be commanded to search for the inquisition and process relating to £10 of land and rent that he has been claiming as part of his inheritance in parliament to parliament in the time of the king's father, and that justice be done to him on it. It was taken into the hands of the late king because of the forfeiture of Stratton, but he only had a life interest by lease.
Nature of endorsement
The inquisition should be brought before the council.
Places mentioned
Blunsdon, [Wiltshire]
Cricklade, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
Adam de Stratton.
Note
The petition is dated to? 1318-? 1323 on the basis of the dating by Cole, and on the dating of other related petitions (Docs. Illus. English History, p.32; SC 8/1/35; SC 8/45/2216).
Related material

For a much later but related petition, see SC 8/84/4158

For the former reference and details of a fragment relating to this petition, see SC 8/155/7702

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/1/35

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1888 (later inquisition into the Elsfield interest in the lands)
  • Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.32 (Latin summary of petition from the same petitioner on the same matter on the parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294748/

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