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Edmund de Swynford (Swinford). de Swynford (Swinford) Edmund King. Swynford requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/226/11278

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Reference
SC 8/226/11278
Date
[1365]
Description
Petitioners
Edmund de Swynford (Swinford).
Name(s)
de Swynford (Swinford), Edmund
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Swynford requests a charter of pardon for the alienation of the manor of Harlaxton to him by Norman de Swinford without licence, and that he can have restitution of the manor as it has been taken into the king's hand and has been there for 7 years to his great impoverishment. It was found by Kelby that Warenne alienated the manor to Brewes without licence, whose son when he came of full age release all his right in it to Norman de Swinford.
Nature of endorsement
Let Brewes, his wife and his friends and the keeper of the manor be called before the council to inform the court for the king if they know any reason for which the king should not remove his hand.
Places mentioned
Harlaxton, Lincolnshire.
People mentioned
Walter de Kelby, escheator in Lincolnshire
John de Garreine (Warenne), earl of Suffolk
John Brewes
John [de Brewes], son and heir of John de Brewes
Norman de Swynford (Swinford).
Note
The petition is dated to 1365 on the basis of the dating of the accompanying writ which seems to have been issued as a consequence of the petition (SC 8/226/11279).
Related material

For the writ resulting from this petition see SC 8/226/11279

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1365, Appendix no. 7 (summary of petition and context)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334838/

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