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Abbot and Convent of Vale Royal. King. The Abbot and Convent of Vale Royal request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/219/10914

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Reference
SC 8/219/10914
Date
[? 1302]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and Convent of Vale Royal.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Abbot and Convent of Vale Royal request that they be granted pasture for 1000 sheep at Fairfield next to their church at Peveril Castle.
Nature of endorsement
Send a writ of chancery to the justices of the Forest to enquire into the value of this pasture, and other rights, and if it is to the damage of the king or any other, and return this to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer.
Places mentioned
Vaureal (Vale Royal), [Cheshire]
Peak (Peveril) Castle, [Derbyshire]
Fairfield, [Derbyshire].
Note
Dated on the guard to? 1302, with reference to SC 8/276/13784 and to an inquisition and other related documents dating from that year, which may have been produced in relation to this case.
Related material

For another petition on this matter see SC 8/276/13784

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. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.514 (calendar of transcripts of an inquisition, two petitions and a memorandum relating to this property)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334473/

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