? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward II to the sheriff of Yorkshire ordering him...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Writ of Edward II to the sheriff of Yorkshire ordering him to empanel a jury to be before Herlaston and Aldeburgh at a day and place that they will inform him of for an inquisition into the complaint made by petition by John, abbot of Byland concerning the forest of Middlesmoor in Nidderdale, which he and his predecessors have held since the gift of William de Mowbray, and by fine of Roger de Mowbray until the forfeiture of John de Mowbray when the forest was taken into the king's hand.

Nature of endorsement

[On face].By petition of the council.[On dorse].It was mandated to the bailiff of Claro that he render by jury the attached writ.

Places mentioned

Middlesmoor forest, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Nidderdale, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]

Claro wapentake, [West Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Edward II, King of England

[Simon Warde], sheriff of Yorkshire

William de Herlaston

Richard de Aldeburgh

John [of Myton], abbot of Byland

Roger de Moubray (Mowbray)

Henry [of Battersby], late abbot of Byland

William de Moubray (Mowbray), father of Roger de Mowbray

John de Moubray, (Mowbray).

For the inquisition formerly attached with this writ, see SC 8/204/10195

For the writ assigning the justices to hold an inquisition, see SC 8/204/10192

For a writ to the keeper of the forest of Nidderdale, see SC 8/204/10196

For the copy of a fine mentioned in this writ, see SC 8/204/10191

For the petition to which this writ was formerly attached, see SC 8/204/10190

For the writ to the keeper of the forest of Middlesmoor, see SC 8/204/10194