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Thomas Somondour. Somondour Thomas King. Thomas Somondour requests that he be restored...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/221/11014A

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Reference
SC 8/221/11014A
Date
[c. 1399]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Somondour.
Name(s)
Somondour, Thomas
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Thomas Somondour requests that he be restored to his inheritance, stating that an inquisition held before Pykeryng found that his father Adam, a bastard, had purchased two cottages outside Monk Bar in the suburbs of the city of York, and a further cottage on Walmgate within the city, held of the king in chief. It also found that Adam died without heirs, by which the property was taken into the king's hands and granted to Lincoln, but Thomas is the rightful legitimate heir of Adam, the son of Adam and Maud, and was out of the country at the time of the inquisition.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Osbaldwick, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
Monk Bar, York
Walmgate, York.
People mentioned
Adam Somondour of Osbaldwick, father of the petitioner
James de Pykeryng (Pickering), late escheator of Yorkshire
John de Lincoln, servant of the king's chamber
Maud [Somondour], mother of the petitioner.
Note
The grant to Lincoln mentioned in the petition was issued on 8 May 1391, while Pykeryng was escheator of Yorkshire on three occasions, the last being between December 1390 to December 1391. The petition was clearly intended for Richard II (the monarch who made the grant to Lincoln), but the writ at SC 8/221/1014B, which would seem to have been issued in response to this petition, was issued under Henry IV (although the date is now lost). It therefore seems likely that this petition was presented around 1399, just before Richard II's deposition, with the writ being issued shortly afterwards.
Related material

For a related writ see SC 8/221/11014B

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. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), pp.403-4 (grant of this property to Lincoln)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334573/

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